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 ...

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 picture ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Lucia Trujillo has worked in federally funded Head Start programs — designed to kickstart the learning and ...

Head Start has faced a series of escalating threats under the Trump administration. A recent administration budget proposal calls for a complete termination of the 60-year-old program. Eliminating the ...