Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said that children without legal status cannot enroll in Head ...

Preschool children, ages 3 and 4, in Head Start are often the ones with the shorter days, he said. However, keeping the centers open for a full school day and year is costly – an estimated $1.1 ...

Most families today need full-day childcare, but roughly half of Head Start programs offered only part-day services in 2016. Part-day programs don’t meet the needs of working families.

The Community Action Council of Howard County received a $12.6 million federal Head Start grant, allowing it to provide Early ...

Yulonda Thomas-Lester, a former Head Start teacher, is a Head Start family service worker. Updated January 23, 2014, 3:26 PM Improving the educational journey for children is important, but it ...

Early Head Start. Created in 1994 to serve children from infancy to age 3, and pregnant women. Serve 4% of eligible children, or about 150,100 as well as 6,400 pregnant women and their families ...

Montgomery schools Superintendent Jerry D. Weast this week announced the expansion of the federal Head Start pre-kindergarten program to full-day study at 10 high-poverty elementary schools, the ...

Head Start no longer wants to require center-based programs ... which required only 3.5 hours per day and 128 days per year, or 448 hours. Head Start officials said that amount of time was just ...

Parents arriving at EMAA, 1111 Linden, Thursday morning were told the full-day Head Start program would be shut down indefinitely after today ... Saturday, April 5 66°F / Cape Girardeau.