Local Head Start sites that provide early childhood education, child care and other services are ramping up for the start of a new school year on Aug. 18 despite uncertainty over possible federal ...

Lady Bird Johnson visiting a Head Start center in 1966 Source: Wikimedia Commons Head Start was founded in 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty and it has been going strong ever ...

For many families, summer often means scoping out childcare options while parents continue to work. Some families ...

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 ...

If the government shutdown isn't resolved by Nov. 1, some 65,000 low-income children will be at-risk of losing access to Head Start child care and early learning. Low-income families across the ...