The Start Plan is the longest-lasting and most influential community action plan in the United States. As early as the 1950s and 1960s, a school survey in the United States found that many children from poor families had already lost at the starting line in primary school because they did not receive a good early education, and the backwardness of the starting point had a huge negative impact on their future studies and even their lifelong happiness.

Therefore, the federal government of the United States began to implement the early start plan from 1964. It is stipulated that at least 90% children aged 3-5 whose families live below the poverty line should receive community education services. Make use of all kinds of educational, cultural, recreational facilities, cultural landscapes and natural environment in the community, and use all kinds of human resources, especially community service personnel and parents of children, to implement free compensatory education for the children of the vast majority of poor families.

A large number of follow-up research reports show that the American government's investment in the community and the use of the community to carry out compensatory education for young children have indeed brought remarkable results to young children and their families, and also brought great social benefits. The United States has invested a lot of money in this community action plan. In 2002 alone, the Bush administration's budget for early start-up plan was $6.5 billion, and in 2003 it was $6.7 billion, and it is planned to increase in turn every year.