My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.

We're making these moves to get a head start on 2006.

Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority.

I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state.

The numbers are just staggering, considering the head start everyone else had.

Head Start has been a key component of health, nutrition and early learning opportunities since the 1960s.