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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...