A safe and healthy learning environment can improve a child’s performance. Alta Care Group is the parent organization of Alta Head Start, which gives children a head start on life.

Hundreds of thousands of low-income children across the country who rely on Head Start for meals, health screenings and early learning will feel the pain of the government shutdown. The early ...

Head Start teacher Sasha Fair helps two preschool children with a science experiment. Fair is worried about potential cuts to Head Start and social services that her students rely on. Credit: Jackie ...

When Lucy learned she could enroll Marcy in a free pre-K Head Start classroom at her neighborhood elementary school in North ...

Thirteen years of teaching 3- and 4-year-olds in Carbon County landed Sarah Arndt a seat near the First Lady Tuesday night, when Rep. Ryan Mackenzie invited the Head Start educator to Washington as ...

TROY, Ohio — For almost as long as she’s been a mother, Sara Laughlin has known where she could turn for help in this western Ohio town 20 miles north of Dayton. For years, the local Head Start ...