The lawsuit argues that the Trump administration cannot reduce or eliminate Head Start, because the program is funded by Congress. By Sarah Mervosh The American Civil Liberties Union and other ...

Head Start is the poster child for public spending. The 60-year-old program and its newer offshoot, Early Head Start, currently provide preschool and child care for roughly 800,000 children in low ...

For a Black girl born in 1967 in small-town Mississippi, Head Start wasn’t just an educational program — it was the nurturing environment that was crucial to my future success. I am not ...

A lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to “dismantle” Head Start programs in Illinois and across the country has been filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf ...

The Trump administration apparently has backed away from a proposal to eliminate funding for Head Start, the early education program that serves some of the nation's neediest preschoolers.

Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday told Congress the Trump administration would not cut funding for Head Start, after layoffs at the agency and funding freezes raised fears the six-decade-old program would ...

Head Start has faced a series of escalating threats under the Trump administration. A recent administration budget proposal calls for a complete termination of the 60-year-old program. Eliminating ...

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However, that battle plays out, eliminating Head Start along with it would be a costly mistake. Head Start sits in the Department of Health and Human Services. The Heritage Foundation’s Project ...

Reading “The Very Busy Spider” to a circle of lively 4-year-olds crouched before her on a rug, teacher Crystal Crowdis builds in a lesson that promises to help her Head Start preschool class ...

Head Start is a program that supports children from birth to age 5 with education and health services. Head Start was founded by Lyndon B. Johnson as a part of the war on poverty. The White House ...