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N.C. Child Care Program Seen as National Model

NPR's Rachel Jones reports on North Carolina's advanced childcare system called Smart Start. The decade-old program has worked as a model for other state-run child care programs.

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Rachel Jones
Rachel Jones reports on education, social policy, and welfare reform issues at NPR. She has also covered children’s health and development, as well as well as racial disparities in health care.
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