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OCR Page 1 of 59THE 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
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