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Head Start preschools aim to fight poverty, but their teachers struggle to make ends meet

Early Education Head Start
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In some ways, Doris Milton is a Head Start success story. She was a student in one of Chicago’s inaugural Head Start classes, when the antipoverty program, which aimed to help children succeed by providing them a first-rate preschool education, was in its infancy.

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