The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation’s neediest children out of preschool.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Head Start programs that serve more than 58,000 of the nation’s neediest preschoolers are facing a cutoff of federal funding at the end of the month because of the government ...

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." ...

Head Start could face further disruptions in November if the government is not reopened, according to the National Head Start Association (NHSA). The federally funded program provides early childhood ...

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 ...

Early Head Start teacher Skyler Chipman cares for a child during naptime at Promise Early Education Center in Lewiston in June 2023. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal) Some of Maine’s most vulnerable children ...

Video: Parents and a Head Start teacher express concern about potential budget cuts to the program. Head Start supporters were relieved when President Donald Trump did not include funding cuts to the ...

Nine Head Start programs in Wisconsin were set to close Nov. 3. Head Start students and families in Sheboygan County are at risk of losing education, meals and family development services. Even if the ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Two Head Start programs in Ohio will close Monday if the government shutdown continues to block federal funding from reaching classrooms. The Highland County and Scioto County Head ...

Beginning Nov. 1, more than 65,000 children will be at risk of losing access to Head Start, the federal early-learning program for low-income families. That's because federal funding for individual ...

FILE - Olivia Starr clings to her father, Thaxter Hall, as Associate Educator Jessica Clark works to comfort her as she is dropped off for the last day of school at the Meadow Lakes CCS Early Learning ...