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Child care innovator and reformer DICK CLIFFORD

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Dick Clifford took a year leave from his professorship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1993-94 to establish and direct the North Carolina Smart Start Early Childhood Initiative under Governor Hunt.
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2: Child care innovator and reformer DICK CLIFFORD. In 1993-94 he took a year leave from his professorship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to establish and direct the North Carolina Smart Start Early Childhood Initiative under Governor Hunt. The program is a working model of partnership between public and private groups. It has been considered a success and is being expanded into other counties of North Carolina.

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