The White House's fiscal year 2026 funding blueprint does not allocate any money toward Head Start, among other social programs, according to a USA TODAY report. The budget is not set in stone.

BROOKLYN, Ohio -- Step Forward recently opened the Memphis Early Learning Center at 10991 Memphis Ave. in Brooklyn. The new location is currently enrolling for the 2025-2026 Head Start offering ...

Whitehall’s Head Start classroom will close in June after two groups’ vote, losing the rural town 13 child care slots. “We knew what was going to happen,” Head Start parent Sadie Gooch ...

Early Head Start students Jace, 3, left, and Shaheyla, 2, center, hold an imaginary phone conversation with teacher Dairi Ray on Friday, May 9, 2025, at the Multicultural Child and Family Hope ...

Head Start, a federal program founded in 1965 as part of the Johnson administration’s “war on poverty,” promotes school readiness for children from low-income families from birth to age 5.