Bucks County Intermediate Unit officials expressed concern earlier this year that the 5-year Head Start grant would not be ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson launched Head Start six decades ago as part of his War on Poverty. The program provides early ...

State budget cuts are forcing an all-day Head Start day care program serving more than 100 Howard County children to close at the end of the month, sending dozens of parents scrambling to find ...

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 ...

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.

Head Start is one of many preschool programs available to children under 5 in the county, and one of the most desirable because it offers a full day — six and half hours — of instruction.