LACEY, Wash. - The ongoing government shutdown is affecting Head Start programs across the nation, with 20 programs having fully or partially closed, including one in Washington state. The current ...

A federally funded Head Start child care program run by Encompass Community Services has temporarily closed due to the ongoing government shutdown, leaving 250 children without care and 91 staff ...

Tallahassee's faith-based community has opened its arms to hundreds of kids displaced after the government shutdown resulted in the closure of their free childcare facilities, and pastors are asking ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) announced that its Head Start program will be closing due to a lack of federal funding impacting 446 children and their ...

Academy Child Development Center at Stone Mill Elementary School in North Potomac. Photo credit: Ceoli Jacoby Montgomery County is spending $10 million on three new initiatives to help early childhood ...

TOKYO – The Children and Families Agency will begin next year a subsidy program to provide women who want to freeze their eggs with up to ¥200,000 per cycle. Through the envisaged program starting in ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - Western Dairyland has helped shaped the lives of many in Western Wisconsin. The Fresh Start program having provided the tools for success, and homes for families in search ...

WASHINGTON, DC — TWO NY CONGRESSMEMBERS’ BIPARTISAN BILL TO EXTEND THE HEALTHY START PROGRAM PASSED UNANIMOUSLY on Wednesday, Sept. 17, from the House Committee on Energy & Commerce 49-0. Reps. Nicole ...

New York City low-income families can continue to participate in city-run Head Start programs for at least another year after the Adams administration stepped in to fill a funding gap following the ...

The city’s Head Start preschool programs will not be required to close this school year, but the change injected fresh uncertainty into an unsettled early childhood system. By Troy Closson New York ...