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- proper noun In the
United States , a government fundedpreschool program for impoverished children.
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Examples
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The final budget includes the President's full increase for Head Start, which is funded at $5.3 billion -- or 90 percent above the 1993 level.
Democrats Win On The Budget ITY National Archives 1999
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The final budget includes the President's full increase for Head Start, which is funded at $4.660 billion.
Budget Press Package ITY National Archives 1998
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The final budget includes the President's full increase for Head Start, which is funded at $4.660 billion.
Budget Press Package Attachments ITY National Archives 1998
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Take, for example, the famed early-education program called Head Start.
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But I don't think that you're going to see a huge increase in the federal contribution to that except for the fact that the federal government does fund Head Start, which is an important early childhood education for a lot of low-income people.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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It differs from Head Start, which is a preschool program that serves low-income children ages 3 to 5.
JSOnline.com 2009
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But millions of Americans have been helped by the programs Shriver created, such as Head Start, Job Corps, Youth Corps, VISTA, Legal Services for the Poor, and, with his wife Eunice, the Special Olympics.
John Bridgeland: Sarge Changed Our World and Us John Bridgeland 2011
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But millions of Americans have been helped by the programs Shriver created, such as Head Start, Job Corps, Youth Corps, VISTA, Legal Services for the Poor, and, with his wife Eunice, the Special Olympics.
John Bridgeland: Sarge Changed Our World and Us John Bridgeland 2011
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She slammed Republicans for targeting programs such as Head Start, health and medical research and federal funding that helps pay for cops on the beat.
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The budget not only includes programs that payoff over the long term, such as Head Start and Title I but it addresses the immediate needs of those families hardest hit by the current economic downturn.
Bertha Lewis: The Future Starts Now: President Obama's First Budget 2009
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