CommunityResources,HeadStartQuality, andCommunityImpacts The Advisory Committee on Head Start Quality and Expansion highlighted the importance of forging effective partnerships with key community ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa — The Trump administration could gut research on the effectiveness of child welfare programs, with plans to terminate dozens of university grants studying improvements to Head Start ...

Supporters of Head Start are worried about the program’s future as it faces Trump administration calls for budgetary cuts ahead of the next school year. The free, federally funded program for ...

Debunking Myths About Head Start: How the Program Promotes Opportunity and Strengthens Families, Communities, and Economies Decades of research illustrate Head Start’s effectiveness and its ability to ...

As the Trump administration weighs wiping out funding for Head Start, one question looms large in debates over the program’s future: Does it work? A draft of President Donald Trump’s pending budget ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Head Start program directors and families are deeply concerned over a Trump administration proposal to cut its funding completely.

Head Start programs across the country were providing summer services to young children when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a surprise notice on July 10 saying that, effective ...

Fresh federal findings cast doubt on whether Head Start is delivering on its promises to families and taxpayers. In 2025, the federal preschool program providing care to children from low-income ...

This story was amended to update information from the Associated Press. Video: Parents and a Head Start teacher express concern about potential budget cuts to the program. Head Start supporters were ...

Four Head Start programs serving nearly 1,000 of California’s most vulnerable children will not receive their annual federal funding on Saturday because of the U.S. government shutdown. One of the ...

One California Head Start program has closed and three others face imminent closure due to the federal government shutdown, affecting about 1,000 very-low-income children and 270 teachers. The ...