This April, the parent of a Head Start student in Washington state went to an immigration office to turn in his paperwork.

The funding and overall future of Head Start — which helps low-income families with child development and family support services — has been in the headlines for the better half of the year because of ...

Fresh federal findings cast doubt on whether Head Start is delivering on its promises to families and taxpayers. In 2025, the federal preschool program providing care to children from low-income ...

Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, warned that Project 2025, a conservative policy agenda, could spell the end for Head Start, a federally funded program ...

Supporters of Head Start are worried about the program’s future as it faces Trump administration calls for budgetary cuts ahead of the next school year. The free, federally funded program for ...

Judge grants preliminary injunction blocking a directive from the HHS that seeks to limit access to Head Start based on immigration status Case: Washington State Association of Head Start and Early ...

File - A student participates in a reading and writing lesson at the Head Start program at the Easterseals South Florida organization, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) ...

The new HHS rule seeks to block certain children from accessing Head Start for the first time in the program’s 60-year history. Case: Washington State Association of Head Start and Early Childhood ...

Head Start programming for about 60,000 children is at risk if the federal government shutdown continues into November, leaders of the National Head Start Association and its state chapters say. On ...

The Trump administration is considering eliminating funding for the Head Start program, which is dedicated to free early child care services — a move that one advocate says would be "catastrophic." ...

Four Head Start programs serving nearly 1,000 of California’s most vulnerable children will not receive their annual federal funding on Saturday because of the U.S. government shutdown. One of the ...