Trump officials bar Head Start providers from using ‘women’ and ‘race’ in grant applications

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is telling Head Start providers to avoid dozens of terms in federal grant ...
Time

America Already Knows How to Address Child Poverty

The U.S. child poverty rate more than doubled from 2021 to 2022. This was a policy choice. The U.S. Census Bureau found that child poverty rapidly dropped between 2020 and 2021 because of the American ...
EdSurge

Head Start Funding Is on Track for Approval. It Still May Not Be Enough.

The funding and overall future of Head Start — which helps low-income families with child development and family support services — has been in the headlines for the better half of the year because of ...
The Hechinger Report

In 2024, Head Start programs are still funded by a formula set in the 1970s

Arabella Miera, an assistant teacher at an Early Head Start program in Pueblo, Colorado, plays with children in this photo from 2021. Head Start programs are funded using an outdated formula that ...
Forbes

The Transformative Impact Of Early Head Start On Student Education

Head Start and Early Head Start programs are designed to holistically nurture the educational, health, and socio-emotional welfare of children from low-income backgrounds. These programs are the ...
WRIC

Nearly 600 Head Start students, about 70 teachers to be impacted amid government shutdown

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Tens of thousands of children and families across the U.S. may be impacted by the possible closing of Head Start programs amid the ongoing government shutdown, and dozens of ...

School Board approves major Head Start early education expansion

In a major move affecting early childhood education, the school board approved lease agreements for five Head Start ...
The Hechinger Report

What I learned about Head Start in rural America

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 ...
wdam

Staff reductions close regional Head Start offices

(AP) - Five regional offices for Head Start were closed Tuesday as part of a workforce reduction at the Department of Health and Human Services, according to the National Head Start Association. Head ...
Crain's Detroit

Focus: Hope to shut down Head Start program after losing federal funding

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Focus: Hope will shut down its Head Start program serving ...
EdSource

TK, Head Start, preschool and more: What’s the difference?

The Cruz family has experienced two sides of a prekindergarten journey: one that transitions from preschool into kindergarten and one that includes transitional kindergarten, or TK, before ...