President Lyndon B. Johnson launched Head Start six decades ago as part of his War on Poverty. The program provides early education and child care for low-income children from infants to 5-year-olds ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis-Shelby County School Board is set to discuss the Head Start program and yet another deficiency, after a 4-year-old student walked out of an elementary school last month.

At age 4, I got to ride the “little bus” to my Head Start classroom and eventually went off to kindergarten with a deep love for learning and going to school. I had my first child as a teenager.

The Head Start program serves nearly 3,000 kids in the Miami Valley who are experiencing poverty. It provides high-quality early learning and child care to children from 6 weeks to age 5.