The Latest Breaking News from Head Start

Trump administration can’t tap into Medicaid data for millions of people to help make arrests, judge says

A coalition of 21 Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the Trump administration’s restrictions on social services for immigrants in the country illegally, including the federal preschool program Head Start, health clinics and adult education

How the administration seeks to use the venerable children's care program as an anti-immigrant weapon.

The Trump administration says it will restrict immigrants in the country illegally from enrolling in Head Start, a federally funded preschool program

Federal health agency has redefined Clinton-era guidance that allowed undocumented people to access certain federal programs

The right wants American women to bear more children and withdraw from full participation in society

At its most basic level, Head Start provides free childcare – but it also creates jobs and can even have generational benefits

A Department of Health and Human Services employee has emailed dozens of people this week, mistakenly including plans to slash research related to child safety net programs

The Trump administration is asking Congress to eliminate the Head Start program, a move that would cut early education for some of the nation’s neediest children as part of drastic proposed cuts to federal health funding

Federal databases show Head Start centers across the U.S. have received nearly $1 billion less in federal funding compared with this time last year

A lot of research has been done on the outcomes of young children who receive care in early education programs across the country. High-quality early childhood education programs positively shape young children’s development. Far less research has focused on the early childhood workforce that powers these programs.