Head Start

A Senate Republican leader on education policy wants to create a $100 million voucher program over the next two years to allow thousands of low-income Ohio children to attend preschool. For every dollar Ohio spends on early childhood education, the...

Barbara Monahan, 97, a longtime teacher at Manchester's Nathan Hale School, died March 31. "She used to walk to school every day," said Celeste McLaughlin, Monahan's stepdaughter. "The kids who she taught would remember Mrs. Monahan because they always...

In 1952, Jesse Berain came from his home state of Texas to work in Idaho's onion, potato and beet fields. The son of a French Basque father and an American Indian mother, he didn't bother arguing the finer points of his heritage with the Magic Valley...

Leaders in Jacksonville's black community protested the early closing of a downtown Head Start program Wednesday morning. The federal government took over the Jacksonville Urban League's Head Start programs in April and placed Community Development...

A man who is accused of tying his 9-year-old son to a closet door with belts and pouring alcohol on the boy's open wounds was arrested Monday. Eulalio Don Cochran Rangel, 32, and his wife, Andrea Marie Lang, 26, were both jailed on child abuse and child...

Two years into a 25-year sentence for stealing nearly $1 million from nonprofits that help children, Louanne Aponte is up for parole. Aponte -- who fled to Venezuela as authorities began investigating her but returned to Austin to face theft charges --...

When the automatic federal budget cuts known as sequestration went into effect in March, Margaret Molloy and her staff at a Head Start agency in the Tucson, Ariz., area started looking for places to make cuts. Child-Parent Centers Inc., which oversees...

Supporters of Crossroads Youth and Family Services and supporters of a tighter county budget battled Monday in a public hearing before the Cleveland County Budget Board. Tempers flared between Norman City Council member Dave Spaulding and a member of...

Kids and teenagers may be joyful when school gets out. But for their working parents, it's the start of a summer of stress. In a year of budget cuts, parents looking for affordable child care face bigger obstacles when finding someone to look after...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With Congress increasingly unable to resolve budget disputes, federal programs on automatic pilot are consuming ever larger amounts of government resources. The trend helps older Americans, who receive the bulk of Social Security...

CHARLEVOIX -- Charlevoix Middle School will close next year and students will instead attend classes at the district's elementary and high schools. The move, along with a staff reduction, is expected to save the district approximately $800,000. In...

More than 1,000 preschool children and their families celebrated the successful end of the Head Start school year by partying with circus performers in Bushnell Park before marching toward the lawn side of the Old State House to watch Asian elephants have...