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 ...
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 ...
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 Head Start programs are funded using an outdated formula that ...
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 ...
EdSource

Head Start allies wait, worry about possible funding cuts

Video: Parents and a Head Start teacher express concern about potential budget cuts to the program. Head Start supporters were relieved when President Donald Trump did not include funding cuts to the ...
NPR

These teachers often live in poverty. A pay raise could help — but there's a cost

Sitting at a blueberry blue table in a Head Start classroom in Pullman, Mich., about an hour south of Grand Rapids, preschool teacher Julie Beck helps a little girl draw a rainbow with crayons. Nearby ...
NPR

Head Start advocates brace for possibility of Trump eliminating funding

The Trump administration is considering eliminating funding for the Head Start program, which is dedicated to free early child care services — a move that one advocate says would be "catastrophic." ...
The Hill

Trump is right about the Department of Education but wrong about Head Start

Conservatives are right to want to rein — or even eliminate — a Department of Education they describe as bloated, ideological and ineffective. However, that battle plays out, eliminating Head Start ...
USA Today

Government shutdown could further disrupt Head Start services in November

Head Start could face further disruptions in November if the government is not reopened, according to the National Head Start Association (NHSA). The federally funded program provides early childhood ...
WBUR

Some Head Start programs still closed, days after shutdown ends

Even though the government has reopened, Head Start early learning programs across the U.S. are still not fully up and running. While most classrooms are open, 140 Head Start programs — some ...
The Hill

Head Start programs in danger after government shutdown funding lapse

Head Start, a free learning program for children from low-income families, is next on the chopping block as the government shutdown nears record length. More than 100 Head Start programs are in danger ...