Interested in your child attending a Save the Children Head Start program? We offer programs in 6 states. Apply now! Head Start is a federally funded program that provides a vital safety net for our ...

Malaya Peterkin and other preschoolers sat in bright blue chairs around a table on a recent afternoon, listening raptly to teacher Rachel Cepeda read a book about butterflies. Afterward, the children ...

School readiness program prepares young children for kindergarten Children from over 13,500 Escambia County families have been enrolled in Head Start since 1965 Families are also connected with ...

Toddlers play at a Head Start-supported family daycare in New Haven, Connecticut. Credit: Anya Kamenetz for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our ...

Beginning Nov. 1, more than 65,000 children will be at risk of losing access to Head Start, the federal early-learning program for low-income families. That’s because federal funding for individual ...

Kennedy barred undocumented children from accessing Head Start programs in 2025. Head Start served over 800,000 children and pregnant mothers nationwide in 2022. Policy shift may save funds but risks ...

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.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Funding that became frozen because of the federal government shutdown has some local child care centers worried about their future. For Kids of Excellence, which operates three ...

NEW ORLEANS — A local program is linking up children who are just beginning their education, with seniors who have a lifetime of experiences to pass on. And they're hoping to find more people who want ...