Some of the college's students are teenagers who come from nearby high schools under the State of Washington's Running Start program.

The widely acclaimed pre-school Head Start program accommodates only 20 percent of the eligible children.

"We have not seen in the Start program any other failure like this where the probation officer just did not take care of his case."

The Start program includes routine home visits, office visits with the probation officer and random drug testing.

High school students without a diploma can take classes at BC in the Running Start program.

It is located across from Clark College, where many Bay students participate in the Running Start program.

Money for the Healthy Start program, which provides health care for young children, will be reduced to $93 million, from $104.2 million.

On the other hand, Web Start programs are no longer part of the web page.

The preliminary data were collected for an evaluation of the Healthy Start program, which was begun in the Bush Administration.

In addition to Nationsbank, about 18 retail and service companies offer rebates to the annuity under the Start program.