On Monday, the first Head Start centers started to close, a result of the now record-setting government shutdown. The program ...

The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation's neediest children out of preschool.

Despite national uncertainty over federal funding, staff say classrooms are full, teachers are focused, and parents are ...

Over a dozen Head Start programs are set to close in rural Georgia, leaving families without many essential services.

Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat, introduced legislation to restore funding to Head Start programs as some have been ...

Head Start, a free learning program for children from low-income families, is next on the chopping block as the government ...

With some early childhood education centers already closing their doors because of the federal government shutdown, local ...

Berkshire County Head Start has launched Harvest for Head Start, a yearlong initiative providing fresh food, nutrition ...

Four centers in Brockton and Norwood, which served 550 children, are closed, and more than 150 staff members are furloughed.

The effects of what has become the longest government shutdown in U.S. history are putting strain on early education programs ...

The closures are putting parents like Chantel Dockery, a single mom in China Grove, in a bind. Her two-year-old daughter’s Head Start program closed at the end of last week, leaving Dockery without ...

Senate Republicans rejected an offer from Democrats to end the shutdown in exchange for a one-year extension of health care ...