Issues with a federal payment system have rattled Head Start programs across Washington in the wake of the Trump ...

Dozens of Head Start programs, which provide childcare and preschool education to low-income children, have been unable to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some Head Start preschools around the country could be at risk of closing temporarily because they remain ...

The Justice Department has said that it told federal agencies to comply with a court's restraining order against the freeze.

Some Head Start programs in Washington may be forced to shut down if their access to federal funds isn't restored soon.

While President Trump's pause on federal grants and loans was temporarily blocked by a federal judge last week, Head Start program providers across the state say they ...

Although the Trump administration appeared to walk back its plan to withhold federal funding, projects across Washington state are not receiving money.

Head Start has been something of a sacred cow in Washington since its creation in 1965. The $12.3 billion federal program provides pre-school services to nearly 790,000 low-income children each year.

As the White House paused federal grants and loans in a far-reaching executive order, early childhood education centers and ...