Program operators have struggled to draw down routine funding, and puzzled over how to comply with confusing policy ...

Head Start employs 4,000 people in Wisconsin whose jobs are now at risk, she added. Mauer said Head Start grantees in Wisconsin have received little to no communication from the federal government.

A group of federal agencies announced in July that at least 15 federally funded health, education and social service programs ...

Head Start began in 1965 as part of the “War on Poverty” program. It was started to help low-income families and children grow and prosper, and that’s what it’s been doing for the last 60 ...

Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin visited a Head Start facility and criticized the Trump administration's funding cuts and freeze, highlighting the resulting childcare crisis in Wisconsin.

Federal payments to Wisconsin’s Head Start programs in the first three and a half months of 2025 are half what they were a year ago, exacerbating worries about the future of the program that ...

The Trump Administration is threatening the future of Head Start – a program that has provided critical and evidence-based services—from education to childcare— to more than 40 million children and ...

Thanh Bui-Duquette, Head Start director for the Western Dairyland Economic Opportunity Council in Wisconsin, on Feb. 1 submitted to the regional office her 90-page application for the annual round ...