Head Start programs have begun to close around the country while the government shutdown extends into its second month.

About 134 programs across 41 states and Puerto Rico will see their operational funding cease on Saturday, affecting nearly 65 ...

Head Start, a free learning program for children from low-income families, is next on the chopping block as the government ...

Among the preschools closing as of Monday are 24 Migrant and Seasonal Head Start centers spread across five states. Those ...

The shutdown of the federal government has forced closure of two Ohio Head Start providers, affecting 600 children and 150 ...

Seven Head Start child care programs, most of them in rural Ohio, face closure because of the federal government shutdown.

The Associated Press reports that children at centers in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, and Oklahoma were all ...

One California Head Start program has closed and three others face imminent closure due to the federal government shutdown, affecting about 1,000 very-low-income children and 270 teachers.

Federal shutdown puts nearly 500 North Dakota children at risk of losing free education, meals and care starting Dec. 1.

Four centers in Brockton and Norwood, which served 550 children, are closed, and more than 150 staff members are furloughed.

Head Start is a federal program run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that provides free early childhood ...

The region’s Head Start early child care sites will lose federal funding starting Nov. 1, but all 17 have pledged to fund ...