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THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON August 7, 1998 MEMORANDUM FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON FROM: JENNIFER KLEIN NICOLE RABNER NEERA TANDEN CC: MELANNE VERVEER SUBJECT: Issues Update Below please find brief updates on various issues. Next week, Nicole will forward separate memos on child welfare/adoption and Packard Foundation discussions, and Neera will forward follow-up memos on D.C. Charter Schools and on the amended version of the Senate's juvenile crime bill. Children's Health Outreach Campaign. We now believe that we need to go ahead and launch the outreach campaign in September. Governors and others are anxious to begin outreach activities, and we want to ensure that the Administration maintains control of these efforts (so that, across the country, families hear one message and see one phone number). At the September event, we will be prepared to launch a radio campaign and announce activities by corporations (e.g., Nike, AT&T, etc.), foundations, grassroots advocacy groups (e.g., health, religious, child care, and education), and others. In addition, we hope to announce that the networks will begin airing public service announcements during prime time hours in January. Head Start. Head Start, as you know, is up for reauthorization this year, and the Senate completed its bipartisan bill many weeks ago, with our close involvement. The bill authorizes the Head Start program at amounts proposed by the President and, you will be interested to note, adds "school readiness" as a specific outcome goal for the Head Start. This will open the way for discussions about a standardized curriculum which will begin exploring with HHS and others in the fall. The House, on the other hand, has turned Head Start reauthorization into a partisan fight the full House Committee added provisions such as vouchers for parents to choose alternate child care arrangements, a repeal of the Davis-Bacon prevailing wage law, and burdensome requirements for Head Start grantees to verify TANF compliance -- all of which we strongly oppose. Congressman Goodling, the Chair of the full Committee who has urged bipartisanship on this issue, and Congressman Riggs, the sub-Committee Chair and main proponent of the partisan amendments, have been arguing about this bill for some time. We now understand that Goodling may in September 1