Education Week

Head Start Teachers Will Earn More—But Programs Might Have to Serve Fewer Kids

Wages for educators in the federal Head Start program for preschool-age children from low-income families will rise in the coming years, thanks to a new federal rule finalized last week. The boost ...
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 ...
NPR

Head Start centers told to avoid 'disability,' 'women' and more in funding requests

Some Head Start early childhood programs are being told by the federal government to remove a list of nearly 200 words and phrases from their funding applications or they could be denied. That's ...
Reuters

US Head Start preschool programs hit by Trump cuts, funding delays

WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - 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 ...
insider.si.edu

Nandagikendan = "We seek to learn" / Red Cliff Early Childhood Center

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- History -- Mission -- Strategic goals -- Curriculum goals -- Program paths to learning -- Medicine wheel landscape -- Medicine wheel chart -- Early Head Start ...
The Hechinger Report

What I learned about Head Start in rural America

Flags line a street in Troy, Ohio. Families in small towns and rural areas are particularly reliant on Head Start, the free federal child care program, but recent turmoil in the program has them ...