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, ...

The legacy of the late Maria Dolores “Lola” Salazar as a caring and loving preschool teacher has been memorialized with a Ramona Head Start teacher’s lounge being named in her honor. Salazar’s four ...

The preschool teachers we rely on to help our most vulnerable children growing up in poverty get paid so little, they often live in poverty themselves. Now the Biden administration wants to change ...

A new Biden administration effort to raise Head Start teacher wages could force the federally funded preschool program to serve fewer children. These teachers often live in poverty. A pay raise could ...

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 ...