New Albany’s Head Start program may be able to open again after the first of the year. “It is our goal to be open for families no later than February 2026,” Delta Health Alliance Vice-President of ...

Some Head Start early childhood programs are being told by the federal government to remove a list of nearly 200 words and phrases from their funding applications or they could be denied. That's ...

When food stamp benefits faced a cutoff, nonprofit groups and local governments filed lawsuits, winning court orders requiring the resumption of payments. And when military troops risked having to ...

FARGO — Nearly 500 children in North Dakota could lose access to free education, meals and child care in December if the federal government shutdown continues. Head Start childhood development ...

One California Head Start program has closed and three others face imminent closure due to the federal government shutdown, affecting about 1,000 very-low-income children and 270 teachers. The ...

A federally funded Head Start child care program run by Encompass Community Services has temporarily closed due to the ongoing government shutdown, leaving 250 children without care and 91 staff ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Education, child care and nutrition services for tens of thousands of young American children will begin to be cut off on Saturday, as Republicans and Democrats in ...

BATH (WGME) -- The government shutdown is now having a direct impact on Maine’s Head Start program. Head Start provides free education and meals to children from low-income families. Those free meals ...

Tallahassee's faith-based community has opened its arms to hundreds of kids displaced after the government shutdown resulted in the closure of their free childcare facilities, and pastors are asking ...

Head Start could face further disruptions in November if the government is not reopened, according to the National Head Start Association (NHSA). The federally funded program provides early childhood ...

In the small towns of Harlem, Hays and Lodge Pole along the Hi-Line in north-central Montana, roughly 125 infants, toddlers and young kids regularly spend their days at child care centers run by Head ...

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- The Early Head Start program under Durham's Partnership for Children is not immediately impacted by the government shutdown, but there's grave concern that the program won't be ...