Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Head Start program directors and families are deeply concerned over a Trump administration proposal to cut its funding completely.

Head Start has faced a series of escalating threats under the Trump administration. A recent administration budget proposal calls for a complete termination of the 60-year-old program. Eliminating the ...

The Inspire Development Centers in Sunnyside is indefinitely closing its Head Start and Early Head Start programs because of loss of federal funding. The closure will impact more than 400 preschool ...

Each day after outside play time, preschool teacher Dometila Casillas sits her classroom of 3- to 5-year-olds down on a rug to read a story together. Wednesday, she read “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.” ...

CLEMSON — Pickens County resident Carl Telford estimates one-half to two-thirds of his income would go to his son's care during the day if it weren't for Head Start — the federal, tuition-free ...

The lawsuit argues that the Trump administration cannot reduce or eliminate Head Start, because the program is funded by Congress. By Sarah Mervosh The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups ...

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- The Early Head Start program under Durham's Partnership for Children is not immediately impacted by the government shutdown, but there's grave concern that the program won't be ...

BRIDGEPORT — U.S. Rep. Jim Himes pledged to work to protect Head Start programs across Connecticut from federal funding cuts during a visit Thursday to a classroom in downtown Bridgeport. Himes said ...

Nearly half of early learning providers surveyed said students are more fearful and anxious, having more tantrums, and ...