It’s 9 a.m. in the morning and the children at the Walatowa Head Start Early Childhood Learning Center on the Jemez Pueblo in New Mexico, line up outside, each carrying a small amount of cornmeal in ...

Head Start is celebrating its 60th year, but the program has faced funding disruptions, a federal government shutdown and ...

Head Start and Early Head Start programs are designed to holistically nurture the educational, health, and socio-emotional welfare of children from low-income backgrounds. These programs are the ...

The pooled employer plan focused on 403(b) nonprofit educational programs is sponsored by GPS, with investment fiduciary services from the Fraser Group. A new pooled employer plan catered to 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 ...

The federal preschool program also supports infants up to age 3 in home-based child care centers. Funding levels are still in flux under the Trump administration’s proposed year one budget. The eight ...

Flags line a street in Troy, Ohio. Families in small towns and rural areas are particularly reliant on Head Start, the free federal child care program, but recent turmoil in the program has them ...

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 ...

Family Educator Lisa Benson-Nuyen, addresses her students in a circle in the Northern Lights classroom at the Meadow Lakes CCS Early Learning, a Head Start center, Monday, May 6, 2024, in Wasilla, ...

The ruling halts a Trump administration directive that would have excluded certain immigrant children from Head Start, a program serving families who are eligible nationwide. The decision ensures ...

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