Layoffs in the Office of Head Start, a federal early childhood education program for low-income families, are leaving local child care providers feeling untethered. “It's like cutting off the ...

Potential federal funding cuts have the Salvation Army's Early Childhood Education Center concerned, as they rely on the federally funded Early Head Start program to support low-income families ...

The federal administration has already secured $2.5 billion for the program, $1 billion of which was COVID relief, Garvin said in defense of the lack of new funding for the requirements.

Local providers of the federal program providing free child care to ... Head Start was created during President Lyndon B. Johnson's "war on poverty" in 1965 to address early childhood education ...

Head Start, the nation’s program that provides child care and preschool education to low-income families, is now in the Trump administration’s crosshairs to be cut. A preliminary version of ...

Nearly $148 million in federal child care funding for low-income families at stake in South Carolina as Trump administration contemplates cutting Head Start. Head Start PreK for SC's most ...

Head Start and Early Head Start funding distributed by the federal government play a critical role in helping low-income families afford quality child care, plus support for children’s ...