NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Bright morning sun is streaming through her home’s windows as Sandra Dill reads a picture book about penguins to a room full of busy toddlers. While listening, the kids blow ...

Another one of her granddaughters, now a teenager, is returning this summer to help out. Four of Dill’s eight available slots are funded through Head Start. This is the federal-to-local program that ...

Toddlers play during story time at Sandra Dill’s Head Start-supported family daycare in New Haven, Connecticut. Credit: Anya Kamenetz for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report is a national ...

Head Start is a program that supports children from birth to age 5 with education and health services. Head Start was founded by Lyndon B. Johnson as a part of the war on poverty. The White House ...

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They are all proud alumnae of Head Start — a program that didn’t just change their lives, but gave them the tools to rewrite their futures. Since its launch as a modest eight-week summer ...

Head Start is turning 60. The federal child care program may not make it to 61. Bright morning sun is streaming through the windows of Sandra Dill's New Haven, Connecticut, home as she reads a ...

Bright morning sun is streaming through the windows of Sandra Dill's New Haven, Connecticut, home as she reads a picture book about penguins to a room full of busy toddlers. While listening, the ...