From Grassroots Movement to Health-Care Mainstream

PITTSBURGH--More than 250 school-clinic directors and health educators gathered here Oct. 2-4 at what turned out to be a celebration of their high-profile status in President Clinton's health-care-reform plan.

"This is a coming-out party for school-based clinics,'' said one participant, still reeling from the news that the President is expected to request as much as $400 million in federal support for school clinics this year.

That feeling of collective excitement pervaded the conference, which was hosted by the Center for Population Options, a family-planning research...