FILE - Students help put away supplies at the end of a reading and writing lesson at the Head Start program run by Easterseals, an organization that gets about a third of its funding from the federal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW BEDFORD — If the federal government shutdown that began Oct. 1 persists beyond Oct. 31, families of children enrolled in Head ...

The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation's neediest children out of preschool.