President Clinton Unveils Proposals To Upgrade Child Care
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Giving child-care advocates the attention they have wanted for years, President Clinton last week unveiled four initiatives to improve America's fragmented child-care system and promised to follow up those efforts with a broader agenda in his State of the Union Address in January.
As he kicked off the Oct. 23 White House conference on child care, Mr. Clinton announced two proposals submitted to Congress--one for a five-year, $300 million scholarship fund that would encourage child-care providers to get training and stay in the field, and another that would make it easier for states to conduct background checks on providers and share that...
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