“All of my children, their lives would be totally different, as well as my own, if it wasn’t for this program,” one Rolling Meadows mother says. The government has been shut down for nearly a month, ...

Kids enjoying playground fun and making new friends at Woodland Early Learning Center, in a provided photo. Caleb Kemboi / Educational Opportunities for Children and Families The families of 186 ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Around 17,000 children in Arizona are currently enrolled in Head Start programs. But funding uncertainty amid the ongoing government shutdown threatens to disrupt the help the ...

ATLANTA — Some Head Start programs in the Georgia are receiving an $8 million bridge loan to stay open for less than two months as the government shutdown continues into next month. According to an ...

With the Senate out of town, the government shutdown is almost certain to extend through at least Monday, as millions of Americans begin to feel its effects. Among them are those who rely on Head ...

As preschoolers boarded a yellow bus outside PACE Head Start in New Bedford, Massachusetts, staff and families worried it could be one of the last rides home for a while. PACE is planning on stopping ...

BROCKTON, MASS. (WHDH) - The national Head Start organization said nearly 3,000 Massachusetts children could be impacted at the start of the month. Six Head Start programs based in Massachusetts are ...

CLEVELAND (WJW) — Now nearly a month into the federal government shutdown, families across Ohio will start feeling the greatest impact starting this weekend. Funding will end for several federal ...

IT’S POSTED RIGHT NOW ON THE 12 NEWS MOBILE APP. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN IS FORCING TWO WISCONSIN HEAD START PROGRAMS TO PAUSE SERVICE. GOVERNOR TONY EVERS SAYS NINE HEAD START CLASSROOMS WILL ...

A government shutdown threatens federal funding for childcare programs that provide nutritious meals to low-income children. The Child and Adult Care Food Program, which reimburses food costs, cannot ...

Hundreds of Massachusetts children could lose access to Head Start early childhood education programs if the government shutdown continues into November. Six of the state's 28 Head Start agencies are ...

Most of Massachusetts’ Head Start programs are afloat for now, even as funding for some runs out Nov. 1 under the prolonged government shutdown. But at least one program in southeastern Massachusetts ...