Nearly a week after 10 men escaped from a New Orleans jail by crawling through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a fence, ...

Maria Castro, who has some of her children enrolled in the Head Start early education program for low-income Americans, sits ...

For 60 years, this program has lifted up generations of children and working parents, demonstrating how public investment in ...

BROOKLYN, Ohio -- Step Forward recently opened the Memphis Early Learning Center at 10991 Memphis Ave. in Brooklyn. The new ...

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is urging members of the U.S. House and Senate to fully fund the Head Start program in the next ...

When President Trump was elected, early education advocates and families with Head Start-enrolled children feared what it ...

Head Start, a federal early-education program for lower-income families, is apparently no longer being targeted for deep funding cuts. Gov. Katie Hobbs on Wednesday says it is important it stay ...

The program that serves about 22,000 children in Georgia. Advocates and families feared the White House would eliminate funding but a more recent budget left it intact.

The program was launched 60 years ago by President Lyndon B. Johnson and serves hundreds of children in Marion and Polk counties.

In its six decades of existence, Head Start has experienced highs, such as the addition of Early Head Start in 1994, and lows, like the disruptive COVID-19 pandemic. Here are notable events from ...