Local Head Start sites that provide early childhood education, child care and other services are ramping up for the start of a new school year on Aug. 18 despite uncertainty over possible federal ...

Malaya Peterkin and other preschoolers sat in bright blue chairs around a table on a recent afternoon, listening raptly to teacher Rachel Cepeda read a book about butterflies. Afterward, the children ...

Due to the government shutdown, Head Start, the iconic program designed to help children from low-income households improve school readiness, is now among the many federally funded services that have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Head Start providers across the country on July 10 received notice from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that they ...

It’s the first sunny day of the week at the Child & Family Centers of Excellence in Waukesha. Tiny students gleefully push dump truck toys on the stone pathway around the playground. It’s almost ...