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Head Start is celebrating its 60th year, but the program has faced funding disruptions, a federal government shutdown and ...

Tens of thousands of children and families could be affected by dozens of Head Start programs potentially closing if the federal government shutdown extends past Nov. 1. About 134 programs across 41 ...

Wages for educators in the federal Head Start program for preschool-age children from low-income families will rise in the coming years, thanks to a new federal rule finalized last week. The boost ...

Dozens of Head Start programs nationwide — including at least six in California — have experienced delays in accessing government money for payroll and expenses in the week since the Trump ...

Six Head Start programs across Massachusetts, including one in Norton, waited more than three weeks to get their annual ...

Nikole Killion is a CBS News congressional correspondent based in Washington D.C., who has covered some of the biggest stories on Capitol Hill since 2021. Killion has also served a key role in CBS ...

Four Head Start programs serving nearly 1,000 of California’s most vulnerable children will not receive their annual federal funding on Saturday because of the U.S. government shutdown. One of the ...

A judge has temporarily blocked the Trump Administration’s plan to freeze trillions of dollars in federal funding. However, dozens of Head Start programs say they still can’t access their money, ...

In February, Hamilton was referred to Healthy Start through Prisma Health’s Maternal Fetal Medicine program. Through Healthy ...