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 ...

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Families and staff who rely on the federal preschool program Head Start may have to wait even longer to return to their centers even though the 43-day government shutdown ended Wednesday night Vital ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

About 134 programs could be affected in 41 states and Puerto Rico. Tens of thousands of children and families could be affected by dozens of Head Start programs potentially closing if the federal ...

Santa Cruz’s Encompass Head Start program is struggling to reopen after the federal shutdown, leaving low-income families without child care and teachers without jobs.

Seventeen Head Start providers in Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties will take on the financial risk of operating into November without the guarantee of reimbursement. The federal grants used to pay ...

Depending on how quickly federal workers can send out funds, the backlog in grant renewals could spill over and affect Head Start agencies that are supposed to receive funding in December, operators ...