Despite funding increases for Head Start over the past six years, only 42 percent of eligible children are now served, and just 4 percent of those eligible are served by Early Head Start, a report by the New York-based National Center for Children in Poverty…
Head Start (HS) and Early Head Start (EHS) provide poor children and their families with vitally important early education and family support services.
Since the early part of the decade, the number of young children (those from birth to 5 years of age ) living in poverty in the United States has been climbing.