After an intense lobbying campaign by Head Start advocates, including actress Jennifer Garner, the early education program ...

They oppose the administration’s decision to make more federally funded programs off limits to legally present immigrants and ...

Despite repeated attacks on the program, Head Start has a 60-year track record of providing high-quality services that ...

As the school year gets underway, Oakland’s Head Start programs are preparing to face more threats to the stability of the ...

Chalkbeat reports that undocumented children will no longer qualify for Head Start preschool under a Trump administration policy shift.

On today’s segment of “Community Conversations,” 7News anchor Dave Hunter interviewed two officials from the non-profit Head ...

Head Start serves 73,476 children from low-income families in California, according to an EdSource analysis. It is unclear how many of those children may be undocumented because the programs have ...

Focus: HOPE will shut down its Head Start program serving hundreds of Detroit children and families after losing federal ...

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Hundreds of Detroit children will lose their placements in its early learning programs as they shut down and 90 or more ...

Head Start, created in 1965, is intended to provide disadvantaged children a pre-school boost. But before now, no one knew whether the program, after a total taxpayer investment exceeding $170 ...

As the 39-year-old federal Head Start program once again comes before Congress for reauthorization, several unanswered questions that have dogged the program since its inception should be considered.