And I pray for our future,” said Zack Zinick during the meeting. Zinick is a Head Start parent who remembers being a student in the program.

When we held our last parent advisory meeting in February, there were only 17 open positions, and two of those had offers out,” she said. Douglass is rounding out her last year, needing Head Start.

Despite bipartisan support, federal funding for Head Start and Early Head Start programs appeared to be in jeopardy this ...

NOW: With federal funding at risk, MPS’ Head Start council held its regular meeting. They discussed the problem for 3 minutes.

He said he depended on Head Start as a parent in the '90s when he was "beyond broke." His daughter graduated from McNary High School and Oregon State University.