The Beginning Plan is a children's project that the federal government of the United States pursues educational equity and improves the vicious circle between generations. This is one of the plans put forward by President lyndon johnson to declare war on poverty.

Since 1965, it has been implemented according to a law passed by the National Assembly. The program is mainly funded by the federal and state governments, and trained teachers provide free preschool education for children with poor family conditions.

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The initial plan is to provide "disadvantaged children and their families" with comprehensive services in education, health, nutrition, family welfare, parent-child relationship and social adaptation. The main purpose is to provide pre-school education compensation for disadvantaged children, develop their intelligence and social adaptability, enrich their cognitive and emotional experience, and promote their school preparation and get fair educational opportunities.

At the same time, providing parents with certain education and training is conducive to the realization of parents' self-worth, improving family conditions and gradually breaking through the vicious circle of intergenerational poverty. Moreover, in the related bills of the Start plan, there are also clear quantitative provisions on the objects of project funding, such as establishing the funding standards of the Start plan through legislation (determining the official poverty line and funding quota) to ensure that poor children and families enjoy funding services.