Head Start

When Congress and the White House failed to make a deal on budget cuts March 1, sequestration went into effect, requiring federal agencies to identify $85 billion in required cuts. The looming reductions, which will be spread across agencies —...

Notre Dame of Maryland University will introduce its new president in style next month, with a week-long series of events including an installation ceremony on April 5 and a Presidential Day of Service on April 7 to benefit Baltimore City Head Start....

Somerset County’s Head Start and Early Head Start programs are facing a 5 percent reduction in funding  as a result of automatic federal budget cuts. The cuts, called the “sequester,” took effect March 1 and are expected to reduce...

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., on Wednesday unveiled proposed legislation that would provide at least one year of prekindergarten for children, especially children from low-income families and children with special needs. “One of the most important...

With more than 20 years of providing child development services in the Valley, Campesinos Unidos was well aware of the need for such services in the community. But the ability to provide state-funded preschool education to low-income families became more...

Now that sequestration is upon us, our nation's leaders continue to debate which federal programs provide the best bang for the buck. When they ask how effective Head Start is, many legislators have cited the Head Start Impact Study. It concludes that...

Public school meals won’t be affected by the federal spending cuts known as sequestration, but several local agencies that depend on federal funding are awaiting word on how the gridlock between President Obama and Congress will affect local...

Fresh off his trip to Washington D.C. for the National Governors Association winter meeting, Governor Sean Parnell is expressing pessimism about the looming federal fiscal crisis due to automatic budget cuts set to take effect Friday. "We've got the...

There’s little agreement about anything regarding the “sequester” except that the $85 billion in cuts to federal spending this year will be implemented starting Friday. As The Times’ editorialized Thursday: “The irony is...

The looming sequester has Kansas military institutions, schools and federal grantees worried and confused about the potential impact. According to The White House, the $85 billion in automatic spending reductions will cause furloughs for civilian...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana residents will lose some unemployment benefits immediately if automatic federal spending cuts take effect this week, state officials said. The state Department of Workforce Development said it would temporarily cut...

Nothing short of a miracle — or a sudden onset of rational behavior inside the Capital Beltway — is going to prevent mandatory, across-the-board federal spending cuts from going in effect Friday. It's also clear the public sector workforce...