Under the leadership and personal involvement of Governor Zell Miller the Georgia's Pre-K Program began as a pilot program serving 750 at-risk four-year-old children and their families at 20 sites in 1992. A major milestone was reached during the 2009-2010 school year when Georgia became the first state in the nation to serve more than one million Pre-K children in a voluntary, universal, lottery-funded program. Today 84,000 children are being served across all the counties in the state, with more than 1.6 million children served since the program's inception.