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 ...

President Donald Trump, just one day after detailing his administration’s efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education ... set federal dietary guidelines that inform their regulations.

Nearly $148 million in federal child care funding is at stake for ... but 37th in state financial investment in early childhood education — and 41st when other funds are considered in addition ...

A teacher helps a child with an art project in a rural ... freezes and mass terminations at the regional and federal levels. In Georgia, Mindy Binderman, executive director of the Georgia Early ...

Victoria Minson is the Course Coordinator for the Bachelor of Early Childhood Education (Birth to Five ... could investigate these breaches of child safety to identify risks and failures and ...

“The Adams administration has remained committed to quality, affordable early childhood education. We said that any child who needs ... s Head Start seats — a federal program that provides ...

Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that spotlights promising approaches to persistent challenges in public education. The Seattle Foundation serves as the fiscal sponsor for Education Lab ...

Local providers of the federal ... child care and preschool education to low-income families. Head Start was created during President Lyndon B. Johnson's "war on poverty" in 1965 to address early ...

Head Start, the nation’s program that provides child care and ... without access to early education and family support. The program relies on nearly $120 million in federal funds annually ...