Smith's daughter attends Head Start programming at Child & Family Centers of Excellence in Waukesha, which closed after confusion caused by the federal freeze on grants and loans ordered by ...

Head Start receives its funding through annual contracts on a rolling basis, so the grant freeze would delay payments for facilities that were expected to get funding on February 1. Additionally ...

The Anaconda Head Start serves 48 children, with 16 enrolled in the Early Head Start Program. The freeze order was outlined in a two-page, Jan. 27 memo from Matthew Vaeth, acting director of ...

A second budget memo issued Tuesday clarified that the freeze did not affect Head Start, which runs preschool centers nationwide. But a chaotic and confused implementation of the budget memo ...

The Monday night announcement of the freeze led to “complete chaos” at several Head Start programs, with some preparing to close their doors on Wednesday, said Joel Ryan, executive director of ...

The freeze was halted by a federal judge but the chaos showed how dependent programs serving low-income kids are on the federal government. Chanda Hillman, who runs a network of Head Start centers ...

A federal funding freeze from the Trump administration is creating widespread confusion among government and state programs, including Head Start schools in San Antonio. The spending freeze on ...

Smith's daughter attends Head Start programming at Child & Family Centers of Excellence in Waukesha, which closed after confusion caused by the federal freeze on grants and loans ordered by President ...

The freeze was halted by a federal judge but the chaos showed how dependent programs serving low-income kids are on the federal government. Chanda Hillman, who runs a network of Head Start centers in ...