A government shutdown threatens federal funding for childcare programs that provide nutritious meals to low-income children.

Head Start programs that serve tens of thousands of the nation’s neediest preschoolers are facing a cutoff of federal funding ...

Education, child care and nutrition services for tens of thousands of young American children will begin to be cut off on ...

Cynthia Nells — and the roughly 40 children she helps run early childhood programs for — are essentially on their own. The centers Nells oversees, located in and around the Ramah Navajo chapter in ...

If the government shutdown extends beyond Nov. 1, more than 65,000 children could be at risk of losing access to Head Start, ...

Head Start programs that provide early education and child care for low-income families are beginning to run out of money as ...

By MORIAH BALINGIT AP Education Writer EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS: The government shutdown is cutting off federal funding for ...

"I'm wondering how I'm going to be able to afford everything" if federal food aid is halted, one single mom said.