President Lyndon B. Johnson launched Head Start six decades ago as part of his War on Poverty. The program provides early ...

Bucks County Intermediate Unit officials expressed concern earlier this year that the 5-year Head Start grant would not be ...

California receives $1.5 billion annually for Head Start. The program provides child care, education, medical care and nutritious meals to more than 80,000 low-income children from birth through ...

In Ohio, Head Start serves more than 27,000 pregnant women, infants, toddlers and preschoolers, according to the Ohio Head Start Association. More than 7,000 Ohioans are employed by Head Start and ...

MANKATO — Head Start parent and family advocate Mari Blesi has two kids enrolled in the program that offers preschool services primarily to low-income families.

In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson launched “Project Head Start,” a summer program intended to help children from low-income families prepare for school. Sixty years later, Head Start has expanded into ...

Head Start offers free child care and preschool services for about 8,000 kids in West Virginia from low-income families or foster families or even those experiencing homelessness.

Head Start helps provide preschool and child care for roughly 800,000 children. But the Trump White House has the program on the chopping block.

In addition to cost-free daycare, Head Start providers connect families to parenting classes, nutrition programs, workforce training, financial literacy, mental health and other services, said ...

The federal Head Start program that provides infants, toddlers, and young children of nearly 600 low-income families in Santa Barbara County with free child care, early education, medical care, and ...