Child care advocates are looking at Ohio’s 2026 elections, particularly the governor’s race, as a sign of how funding and ...

The Trump administration is telling Head Start providers to avoid dozens of terms in federal grant applications, including ...

The funding and overall future of Head Start — which helps low-income families with child development and family support services — has been in the headlines for the better half of the year because of ...

A version of this essay originally appeared on Elliot Haspel’s Substack The Family Frontier. By now, you may have seen the ...

I am a farmer’s daughter who grew up going to Head Start. At age 4, I got to ride the “little bus” to my Head Start classroom and eventually went off to kindergarten with a deep love for learning and ...

It had been nearly two weeks since the government turned all federal grants and loans off and then back on again, but many Head Start child care providers across the country still couldn’t get their ...

A teacher helps a child with an art project in a rural Head Start classroom. Half of Head Start slots are in rural areas. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one ...

Our nation needs child care so parents can go to work, kids can thrive, child care workers can stay in their profession, and businesses can prosper. Even though 71% of moms with kids under 18 are in ...

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Along the Canadian border in north central Washington’s Okanogan County, where the closest major city is at least 100 miles away and infrastructure is sparse, the Okanogan County Child Development ...

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Education and child advocacy leaders are warning that a proposal to eliminate federal funding for Head Start could devastate Texas families, erasing decades of progress in early childhood education ...