The child-care proposals now pending before the Congress, Secretary of Education William J. Bennett told lawmakers last week, “seem, however unintentionally, to put families to one side,’' and to “be more concerned with creating new structures than with supporting the very best structures possible for our children: our families.’'
A version of this article appeared in the April 27, 1988 edition of Education Week as Bennett Outlines Objections to Child-Care Bills