EXCLUSIVE — The Trump administration is investing nearly a quarter-billion dollars into the anti-poverty early childhood ...

The Trump administration’s plan to loosen regulation on Head Start is getting praise from conservatives, but the program’s backers are ready for a legal fight.

A Head Start center in Baltimore, Maryland, was one of about 1,600 in operation across the U.S. as of late 2025. A proposed ...

Several Senate Republicans expressed wariness to USA TODAY about any deregulation of the decadesold, bipartisan program.

Kennedy will tour classrooms and meet with parents and staff as HHS considers changes to the federal early childhood program.

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 ...

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 ...

Changes to the federal Head Start program could have major impacts across Alabama. Earlier this month, the Department of Health and Human Services announced a proposal to revamp the Head Start ...

Started as an eight-week demonstration project as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty, Head Start has grown ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families proposed earlier this month significant changes to the Head Start program, framing them as measures to reduce ...

Kennedy, along with Administration for Children and Families Assistant Secretary Alex Adams, will tour the Community Action Corporation of South Texas (CACOST) Head Start Birth Five Program in Alice.

Head Start classrooms in Kentucky could see lower staff-to-student ratios and other changes if a Trump administration ...