The Trump administration has proposed a budget that eliminates funding for Head Start, a program that provides early ...

The federal preschool program also supports infants up to age 3 in home-based child care centers. Funding levels are still in ...

And communities will carry the cost for years to come. Head Start and early learning programs aren’t luxuries, they’re lifelines. Backed by decades of data, these modest investments deliver powerful ...

The Illinois General Assembly passed a budget Sunday for fiscal year 2026 that increased funding for some state programs that ...

Three new books examine where U.S. COVID-19 policy went wrong and how it has shaped children's lives and development.

Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin visited a Head Start facility and criticized the Trump administration's funding cuts and freeze, ...

Illinois Head Start officials reacted warily to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s assurances that the administration supports continued funding for the program.

Head Start programs have received federal funding and mostly bipartisan support ... for weeks after the Trump administration’s federal freeze at the end of January, with one program in Aurora ...

RIGHT. SO THE FEDERAL FUNDING FREEZE BACK IN JANUARY FORCED THIS CENTER HERE IN WAUKESHA TO TEMPORARILY SHUT DOWN ITS HEAD START PROGRAM FOR ROUGHLY A WEEK. IT IS BACK UP AND RUNNING AT THIS POINT ...

EAST MOLINE, Ill. — The problems for Head Start began days after President Donald Trump took office. Trump's administration announced it would freeze federal grants — the primary funding for ...

The problems for Head Start began days after President Donald Trump took office. Trump’s administration announced it would freeze federal grants — the primary funding for the early education ...