A group of U.S. senators that included the two from Michigan and one from Wisconsin have called on the federal Department of Health and Human Services to explain why five regional Head Start offices ...

Local providers of a program providing free childcare to low-income families are concerned after reporting that Trump may aim ...

I think that they are going to, in the next four years, do all they can to try to dismantle the Head Start program,” says ...

Head Start programs in New Jersey are continuing to offer child care and early education after the Trump administration closed the regional office that serves New Jersey. The U.S. Department of ...

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 significant lag in funds comes as the National Head Start Association learned April 1 that five regional offices — Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Seattle — would be shut down.