Head Start has been *everybody's* favorite social program since LBJ started it as part of his War on Poverty in the late 1960's. That's because its results were tracked and have been shown to be uniformly stellar. Low-income parents of Head Start students were included too, often as teacher aides.

Orlan Brown

Head Start advocates say that erasing regulations serves as a backdoor way to dismantle a program the administration does not like. The White House last year called Head Start “radical” and tried but failed to freeze spending on it