Shifting services to match needs This fiscal year, the funding for OACAC's Head Start program — expected to remain flat for fiscal year 2026 — provided 696 spots across the 10-county service ...

Earlier this month, Head Start celebrated a milestone – its 60th birthday. Throughout 11 presidential administrations and half a dozen congressional reauthorizations, the program’s fundamental ...

The Head Start preschool program, vital to nearly 800,000 low-income US children, faces a mounting crisis due to Trump-era budget cuts, delayed grants, and the closure of key federal offices.

Head Start preschool programs for low-income U.S. children are scrambling to cope with funding cuts and delays, as they feel the squeeze of President Donald Trump's cost-cutting drive.

MOSS POINT, Miss. (WLOX) - Head Start programs across South Mississippi are celebrating 60 years of serving the community. Founded in 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, Head Start has provided ...

Head Start programs have received federal funding since the preschool effort was started more than 60 years ago as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty.

Head Start, launched in 1965, served about 800,000 children last year, including 83,000 in California. Originally a preschool, the program now serves children from birth through age 5.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — After a leaked budget proposal from the White House suggested the elimination of Head Start across the country, it appears now that President Donald Trump is reversing ...

California receives $1.5 billion annually for Head Start. The program provides child care, education, medical care and nutritious meals to more than 80,000 low-income children from birth through ...

In fact, TODAY's own Craig Melvin was one of the kids who grew up with support from a Head Start program. “I’m a Head Start kid,” Craig told Jacob. “Before preschool I went to Head Start ...

Despite fears that Head Start might be terminated, funding for the preschool education and child care program is in the budget proposal the Trump administration has sent to Congress. ABC News ...

Head Start has been spared from proposed spending cuts in Trump’s initial budget request, a relief to providers who feared they would be targeted by the administration’s campaign to reduce the ...