Head Start is celebrating its 60th year, but the program has faced funding disruptions, a federal government shutdown and ...

Flags line a street in Troy, Ohio. Families in small towns and rural areas are particularly reliant on Head Start, the free federal child care program, but recent turmoil in the program has them ...

Head Start teacher Sasha Fair helps two preschool children with a science experiment. Fair is worried about potential cuts to Head Start and social services that her students rely on. Credit: Jackie ...

Beginning Nov. 1, more than 65,000 children will be at risk of losing access to Head Start, the federal early-learning program for low-income families. That's because federal funding for individual ...