[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16489]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     HEAD START'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I rise in recognition of our Nation's 
flagship program for young children: Head Start. October is National 
Head Start Awareness Month, and 2015 marks 50 years since the program's 
founding.
  President Lyndon Johnson said Head Start would open up ``a new war 
front on poverty . . . to make certain that poverty's children would 
not be forevermore poverty's captives.''
  I have the honor of counting the father of Head Start, Edward Zigler, 
among my constituents. When Professor Zigler recently went for surgery 
at the Yale-New Haven Hospital, he discovered that his anesthetist, Dr. 
John Paul Kim, was a Head Start alumnus. Dr. Kim credited his success 
in life directly to Head Start, and he is not alone.
  Research proves that Head Start graduates are less likely to be held 
back a grade or to get into trouble with the law and are more likely to 
go on to college and professional careers.
  But our work is not yet done. Head Start currently only has the 
resources to reach 4 in 10 eligible students. If we are serious about 
helping children thrive, we must meet this demand.

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