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Head Start Turns 50

Dept. of Health & Human Services
Apr 08, 2015
By: Sylvia Mathews Burwell, HHS Secretary
This year marks a historic milestone for Head Start: its 50th anniversary. Since it was created 50 years ago, Head Start has provided more than 32 million children with comprehensive early learning experiences, including school readiness, health, mental health, nutrition, and family engagement supports. This year alone, that number will be over a million.
Thanks to the work done every day at Head Start centers across America, children’s lives have been changed. Millions of kids will learn to love reading and graduate on time; they will grow up a little more secure, stay out of trouble with the law, and find jobs.
I’m passionate about Head Start for many reasons, but one of them is personal: Head Start helped me.
In my rural home town of Hinton, it was one of the only early educational opportunities around. With an excellent teacher, Mrs. Rita Pack, I learned to love learning, and that love has stayed with me my whole life.
That’s a foundation that all children can have.
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