It’s the first sunny day of the week at the Child & Family Centers of Excellence in Waukesha. Tiny students gleefully push dump truck toys on the stone pathway around the playground. It’s almost ...

School readiness program prepares young children for kindergarten Children from over 13,500 Escambia County families have been enrolled in Head Start since 1965 Families are also connected with ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Conservatives are right to want to rein — or even eliminate — a Department of Education they describe as bloated, ideological and ineffective. However, that battle plays out, eliminating Head Start ...

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) ...

Head Start grantees are uncertain over how they can meet the federal government's expectation of serving hundreds of kids from closed Focus: HOPE Head Start program without additional funding. A week ...