Yahoo

Head Start preschools aim to fight poverty, but their teachers struggle to make ends meet

WASHINGTON (AP) — In some ways, Doris Milton is a Head Start success story. She was a student in one of Chicago’s inaugural Head Start classes, when the antipoverty program, which aimed to help ...
WTXL ABC 27

Teachers return to work, parents find relief as Head Start programs reopen in Tallahassee

Hundreds of families and teachers in Tallahassee are breathing a sigh of relief after emergency funding from the Children’s ...
NPR

These teachers often live in poverty. A pay raise could help — but there's a cost

Sitting at a blueberry blue table in a Head Start classroom in Pullman, Mich., about an hour south of Grand Rapids, preschool teacher Julie Beck helps a little girl draw a rainbow with crayons. Nearby ...
WBUR

Head Start teacher on working without pay during the government shutdown

Some Head Start educators are already working without pay in Tallahassee, Florida, and have let families know they may close ...
WRIC ABC 8News on MSN

Nearly 600 Head Start students, about 70 teachers to be impacted amid government shutdown

Tens of thousands of children and families across the U.S. may be impacted by the possible closing of Head Start programs ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Head Start enrolling children for childcare services amid talk of federal budget cuts

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 ...
Yahoo

Head Start starts school year short two teachers and 23 students

BRANCH COUNTY — Regular Head Start and the Great Start Readiness program classes for pre-kindergarten students in Branch County began last week, two teachers short, and with room for more students, ...