River dyed blue; burglar falls from ceiling; cancer hoax

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A library book overdue by nearly 50 years has been returned to a university library in southwest Ohio.

The University of Dayton says a former student who borrowed the "History of the Crusades" in 1967 has sent it back with an apology for the late return.

The university says James Phillips, of Minnesota, apparently checked out the book as a freshman before leaving school to join the U.S. Marines. Phillips says the book and other belongings must have been gathered from his dormitory room and sent to his parents' house where they remained until his parents' died. Phillips recently found the book in a box of belongings forwarded to him by his brother.

University officials say they won't be charging Phillips the late fee that would have been about $350.

By VALERIE WELLS

Herald & Review

DECATUR, Ill. (AP) — D'auntray Williams is one tough kid.

The 10-year-old tested for and was awarded his advanced white belt recently, which requires more than two hours of demonstrating skills, and in the process, took a hit to the nose which broke it.

Two days later, he was at Stephen Decatur Middle School, wearing his tae kwon do dobok, sparring and working out alongside the other students in the class, wearing his new belt, and he said his nose doesn't hurt at all. He rarely misses a class and is one of the most dedicated students.

"He took (the hit) like a man," said Will Pitts, who teaches seventh-grade history at Stephen Decatur and started the class for Decatur School District students in November, thanks to a grant from the Decatur Public Schools Foundation. Class meets five days a week after school.

Pitts and his fellow teacher Ben West, who teaches band at Garfield Montessori School, have studied martial arts together at De La Rosa Martial Arts for several years, and came up with the idea to offer a class at no cost to Decatur students. Their teacher, Lisa De La Rosa, gave her blessing for them to teach and provides advice and assistance.

"This is for the kids who don't fit into traditional sports," Pitts said. "Not everybody's going to play football or basketball."

Martial arts provides them with training for body, mind and spirit, he said, and a supportive atmosphere with adults who care about them and can act as role models. Kids from throughout the district are invited and there is room for more, he said. The classes are free, with families responsible only for the kids' uniforms and protective gear. Because many students in the district come from low-income families, paying for classes at a traditional school of martial arts would be out of reach. In addition, Pitts said, some of the kids in his class would go home to an empty house and nothing to do, instead of a ready-made group of friends and a constructive activity.

Nichele Gavin's two kids, Tara and Jayden, both participate in the class. Tara has autism, and Gavin said she was told that martial arts can improve focus and discipline as well as physical fitness. Another plus for her is that it's an activity that both children can participate in together. Tara wears headphones to cut down on distractions and gets out there on the mat and spars with other kids and with her instructors with the best of them. Gavin said she can see a difference in her daughter already, including her grades.

"She got all A's on her last report card," Gavin said. "That's the first time she's ever done that."

Michael Garmon, 6, is one of the few kids who gives the classic martial arts yell whenever he throws a kick, and is a fireball on the mat. He has wanted to learn martial arts since he could walk, said his mother, Kathy Garmon. She had him enrolled in another class, but when she heard about this one, and that it was free, she moved him to it.

"He's made a lot of friends," she said.

By contrast, 15-year-old Erma Porter, who holds a green belt, never makes a sound when she's sparring. As an older, more experienced student, the MacArthur High School student helps demonstrate techniques to the younger ones. She's been studying martial arts for three or four years.

"I go for the silent intimidation," she said with a chuckle.

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Source: The (Decatur) Herald & Review, http://bit.ly/1MaAJsN

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MAPLEWOOD, Mo. (AP) — A St. Louis-area robbery was foiled when the owner of a business realized the would-be robber was using a water pistol.

KMOV-TV (http://bit.ly/22AVWph ) reports that Amanuel Perkins is charged with first-degree attempted robbery. He is jailed on $25,000 bond and does not yet have an attorney.

Police say the crime happened last week at Sole Survivor Leather store in Maplewood. Police say Perkins demanded money and the store owner feared for his life before realizing it was a multicolored water pistol, and not a real gun, that was being pointed at him.

The store owner pushed away the gun and told the assailant to leave, before police arrived to make the arrest.

Police say Perkins told them it was a St. Patrick's Day joke.

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DETROIT (AP) — Detroit will start using state education tax dollars to fund a program that will pay for two years of community college for the city's high school graduates.

Detroit Promise scholarships will be available to students starting in 2018. The program follows promise zone legislation passed years ago by state lawmakers and signed in 2009 by then-Gov. Jennifer Granholm.

Promise zones can use state education tax dollars collected through property taxes to support local fundraising efforts. State law requires a private organization to fund two years of scholarships before any taxes can be captured.

The Detroit Regional Chamber and Michigan Education Excellence Foundation will fund the program for the next two years.

"Affordability will no longer be a reason for any student in Detroit not going to college," Detroit Regional Chamber President and Chief Executive Sandy Baruah said.

The scholarships will cover tuition and other costs not covered by state and federal grants. They are open to students in public, charter or private schools. Students must live in Detroit and spend their final two years at high schools in the city.

High school graduates can attend Henry Ford, Wayne, Oakland or Macomb community colleges or Schoolcraft College. They must be accepted by those colleges.

"My hope is that this promise is just the beginning and that we'll be able to raise enough money to promise every Detroit high school student four years of tuition-free education at our public universities," Mayor Mike Duggan said Tuesday.

The program also could entice parents to remain Detroit residents or move into the city with the guarantee of free college tuition, officials said.

Duggan and the Detroit City Council created the Detroit Promise Zone authority last fall to dedicate the tax dollars to fund the two-year scholarships.

Other cities with similar promise zones include Battle Creek, Lansing, Muskegon and Pontiac. The promise zone legislation was modeled somewhat after the Kalamazoo Promise, which guarantees free college tuition to graduates of Kalamazoo Public Schools.

The Detroit Regional Chamber and Michigan Education Excellence Foundation created the Detroit Scholarship Fund in 2013. That fund has helped nearly 2,000 high school graduates attend community college.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — An effort is underway to provide fertile soil as the groundwork for landscaping at the Gateway Arch grounds in St. Louis.

In late September, contractors planted about 400,000 radishes in an effort to soften the compacted soil at the national park, which is largely low-quality clay fill, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1ZnPMa8 ) reported. Although most of the radishes froze and died over the winter, they helped till the soil by sending their thick tap roots almost two feet deep and leaving hundreds of thousands of long, skinny holes in the ground, and they're depositing nutrients closer to soil surfaces.

"It actually feels almost like you're walking through a forest," said Arch grounds contractor and arborist James Sotillo, one of the brains behind the plan. "That's the beauty of these radishes. As they grow, they're releasing all of these incredible metabolites into the soils."

Officials at the National Park Service and CityArchRiver foundation have said the old ash trees on the Arch grounds weren't going to last much longer because the soil isn't fertile enough to support big trees with long lives.

In an effort to remedy the problem, contractors also have matched compost with the grasses they're planting so the right nutrients and organisms are in the ground. They're brewing a special concoction that they've been spraying every spring and fall before construction started.

About $5 million has been spent to buy and truck in tons of specific soil blends -- enough to cover 18 football fields in three feet of dirt.

"When you think about ecology, you have to have good soil," said Susan Trautman, executive director of the regional trails organization Great Rivers Greenway. "Better soil means trees can live longer, develop deeper roots, so they can sustain over time."

It's unclear how much the soil effort has cost the project upfront, but architects believe it will save the Park Service money in the long run.

Work on the $380 million CityArchRiver renovation should be completed next summer.

Nearly 900 London plane trees will be planted to replace the ash trees.

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The deeply unpopular ISTEP student exam will be repealed by July 2017 under a bill Gov. Mike Pence signed into law Tuesday.

Appearing at an assembly at Eagle Elementary School in Zionsville, the Republican governor jokingly told students that the good news is the ISTEP will go away but the bad news is they will still have to take tests.

"We're going to have accountability in our testing, but we're going to find a better way," Pence said before signing the bill at a table flanked by students. "We're going to look to our teachers and we're going to look to our administrators ... and we're going to ask how can we do a better job?"

After years of tinkering with the state's education policy, including withdrawing from the national Common Core standards, the decisions by the GOP-majority Legislature now pose a political liability, because parents and educators have become increasingly weary of high-stakes testing. And ISTEP scores plummeted about 20 percent in 2015 when compared to the previous year due in part to a hastily rolled out test that was based on Indiana-specific standards for math and science instead of the Common Core.

While Democratic State Schools Superintendent Glenda Ritz has long called for student testing to be rethought, the idea to scrap the ISTEP did not gain currency until recent months with Republicans, who have supported school accountability measures that use student performance on the standardized test to determine school grades and help award teacher merit pay.

The bill signed by Pence was sponsored by GOP House Education committee Chairman Bob Behning and will create a 23-member panel of educators and experts who will study and make recommendations about what should replace ISTEP.

The committee is tasked with finding ways to reduce the amount of time students spend taking standardized tests, as well as ways to decrease the cost of administering tests. But they are also being asked to evaluate ways to increase the fairness of testing to students, teachers and schools. Another consideration for the panel is figuring out the impact the newly approved federal Every Student Succeeds Act will have on education in Indiana. The law replaces the No Child Left Behind law that was put in place more than a decade ago by former President George W. Bush.

Democrats, however, are unhappy with the measure, because minority Democrats cannot appoint people to the board. As is, Pence, Ritz and GOP leaders in the Senate and House are able to appoint members, but legislative Democrats are not. Additionally, Democrats complain that that Ritz, the state schools chief, will not chair the committee.

"Superintendent Ritz has said for years that the state needed to get rid of the ISTEP exam," state Democratic Party Chairman John Zody said in a statement. "But unfortunately, her advice fell on deaf ears. That is, until another public relations crisis fell on the governor's lap. While it is encouraging that Mike Pence finally listened to Ritz, he still refuses to respect her position as our State's Superintendent of Public Instruction."

Much of the testing backlash came after lawmakers abruptly withdrew from national Common Core math and English standards. Conservative critics say the national math and English benchmarks that describe what students should know after completing each grade amount to a federal takeover of education. The new Indiana-specific standards — the third time in a decade that the standards were changed — were touted as more difficult. The 2015 ISTEP exam also was plagued by testing glitches.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A bill declaring that Kansas Supreme Court justices can be impeached for attempting to infringe on the Legislature's power was narrowly approved Tuesday in the state Senate, but a split among majority Republicans signaled the measure could face difficulty moving ahead.

The Senate's vote of 21-19 reflected some misgivings within its GOP supermajority about a proposal that critics labeled an attack on the court system's independence. The measure goes next to the House, where similar divisions among Republicans exist.

It's the latest in a series of initiatives putting Kansas at the center of a national effort by GOP conservatives to remake state courts. Those have included failed efforts to change how Supreme Court justices are chosen and a threat by lawmakers — later dropped — to nullify the court system's entire budget.

The vote Tuesday also came less than six weeks after the Supreme Court ordered lawmakers to increase state aid for poor school districts — or face having all public schools shut down in July.

Supporters said the bill simply gives examples of what the state constitution means when it says Supreme Court justices can be impeached and removed from office for "high crimes and misdemeanors." The new list would include "wanton or reckless judicial conduct" and "attempting to usurp the power" of legislators or executive-branch officials.

"This bill clarifies the checks and balances on the branches of Kansas government," said Sen. Greg Smith, an Overland Park Republican who is one of 18 sponsors of the measure.

But Rep. Steve Becker, a retired district court judge, said the bill is so broad that any time the court strikes down a law, it could be seen as usurping lawmakers' power — allowing for judges to be impeached.

"It totally handicaps the Supreme Court," the Buhler Republican said. "It would render the Supreme Court useless, basically."

Republicans hold 32 seats in the Senate, but 11 GOP senators joined all eight Democrats in voting against the bill, including Judiciary Committee Chairman Jeff King, of Independence. A Washington-based group, Justice at Stake, called the measure "an affront to democracy."

The bill's supporters said they aren't attacking the Supreme Court. In committee, they added language creating a similar list of examples of impeachable offenses for the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and secretary of state.

Still, as the Senate considered the measure, supporters repeatedly suggested that the Supreme Court has overstepped its authority in some of its decisions.

"We live in an era when people believe the independence of the courts and absolute power are synonymous," said Sen. Mitch Holmes, a St. John Republican and another sponsor of the bill.

In other states, conservative groups have spent heavily in contested judicial elections, most recently in Arkansas.

But in Kansas, justices are appointed by the governor after a commission led by lawyers screens applicants and picks three finalists, with no role for legislators. Justices face "retention" elections every six years, remaining in office unless more than 50 percent of voters vote against them.

Four of Kansas' seven Supreme Court justices were appointed by Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, who served from 2003 to 2009, and two by her predecessor, Bill Graves, a moderate Republican. Only one was appointed by current Gov. Sam Brownback, a conservative Republican.

Conservatives are expected to push this year for Kansas voters in the November election to remove four justices — two Sebelius appointees and the two Graves appointees.

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SALINA, Kan. (AP) — A Salina man has been arrested after falling through a restaurant ceiling as police responded to a burglary.

The Salina Journal (http://bit.ly/1UiebyA ) reports that the arrest happened early Monday at a Taco John's. Capt. Chris Trocheck says the suspect told police as he was being arrested that a second person was still inside the restaurant.

Trocheck says the police department's SWAT officers were called in to clear the building and found no one else inside.

Police were summoned after the manager heard a banging sound inside and reported that someone might be trying to break into the safe. A police dog couldn't locate anyone. The suspect fell through the ceiling when officers entered the restaurant.

The suspect complained of injuries from the fall and was treated at a hospital.

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Information from: The Salina (Kan.) Journal, http://www.salina.com

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Indiana environmental officials say the Maumee River will have a blue tint for a few days after a spill of 200 gallons of dye in Fort Wayne.

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management says the spill occurred Monday evening in downtown Fort Wayne and some of the blue dye entered a storm sewer. The cleanup process includes flushing out the affected storm sewer that drains into the river.

IDEM says the public may notice a blue tint to the river until the dye is diluted and moves downstream. Dilution is expected to take about three days.

IDEM recommends people who come in contact with the tinted water wash with water and mild soap. No harm to people or wildlife is expected.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A federal judge has blocked the state from placing a 13-year-old boy who moved to Nebraska from Minnesota on its public list of sex offenders.

The Lincoln Journal Star (http://bit.ly/1S3njRn ) reports that the Nebraska State Patrol determined the boy had to register when he moved to Nebraska because of a subsection of a law that opted to exclude minors from the Nebraska Sex Offender Registration Act unless they were prosecuted criminally in adult court. The way the law was written made it seem as if all sex offenders who move to Nebraska must register.

The boy's family filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block the patrol from putting him on the public registry.

Senior U.S. District Judge Richard G. Kopf concluded that Nebraska's law doesn't apply because the boy wasn't required to register in Minnesota since he was adjudicated in juvenile court, not adult court.

"It therefore makes no sense to believe that the Nebraska statutes were intended to be more punitive to juveniles adjudicated out of state as compared to juveniles adjudicated in Nebraska," the judge wrote in a 20-page order.

Omaha attorney Joshua Weir said the boy's grandmother was excited when he called her with the news about the ruling. Weir said the boy is a happy and healthy child who flourishes in school.

"It would've been a tragedy if he would have been branded a sex offender," he said. "That's something that sticks with you for the rest of your life."

The state could decide to appeal the decision within the next 30 days.

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Information from: Lincoln Journal Star, http://www.journalstar.com

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Members of a Minnesota Vikings fan organization raised thousands of dollars for a woman believed to have terminal brain cancer. But, now they've learned they likely fell for a con artist.

The group Viking World Order arranged front row seats and field access for a game against the Green Bay Packers and raised $20,000 on a fund-raising site and from jersey sales. The woman who contacted the fans group graduated from Edina High School and lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Vikings fan Joe LaMonte took her to a game and loaned her money. LaMonte tells KMSP-TV (http://bit.ly/1XJzg2O ) that after a while people began wondering why she wasn't taking medication or attending chemotherapy.

KMSP-TV reports it was an acquaintance in Florida that finally blew the whistle on her.

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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A southwest Missouri woman has been awarded $20.6 million in damages after federal jurors found that a company exposed her to a toxic chemical that left her with permanent disabilities.

The Joplin Globe (http://bit.ly/1S3bZEZ ) reports that a jury hearing Jodelle Kirk's case announced $13 million in punitive damages Monday and $7.6 million in actual damages Friday. At issue is the conduct of FAG Bearings, which is a subsidiary of Schaeffler Group North America.

Kirk's attorney told jurors the company dumped trichlorethylene, also known as TCE, on its property and that the known carcinogen seeped into the ground, nearby creeks and private wells.

The Silver Creek woman was diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis in 2002 when she was 14. FAG previously has blamed two other companies for the contamination.

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Information from: The Joplin (Mo.) Globe, http://www.joplinglobe.com

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A survey of bighorn sheep in the western North Dakota Badlands indicates the herd is rebounding from an outbreak of bacterial pneumonia, boosting the likelihood of a fall hunting season.

The Game and Fish Department survey released this week counted 292 animals in the state-managed herd, up 8 percent from last year and 3 percent above the five-year average. Big game biologist Brett Wiedmann called the numbers "encouraging."

Bacterial pneumonia hit the herd in 2014 and re-emerged last summer. The hunting season was called off last year for the first time in more than three decades due to dozens of sheep deaths.

"Adult mortality slowed significantly in 2015, and we had a good number of lambs survive in 2014 and 2015 to compensate for most of the adult losses," Wiedmann said

Earlier this month, Game and Fish announced a tentative fall hunting season based on projections that the herd would continue to fight back.

Sheep are still dying, but at a much slower rate, according to Game and Fish Veterinarian Dan Grove. The agency said the only thing that would preclude a hunting season would be a larger-scale recurrence of disease this summer. A final decision on a hunting season will be made Sept. 1, after a summer count of the sheep.

"As far as an exact number, we don't have a set goal, a specific number in mind where we would say yes or no" to a hunting season," state Wildlife Chief Jeb Williams said earlier this month. "It's going to be very dependent on the overall survey and mature rams. Do we have enough mature rams in that population to give away those licenses?"

Big horn sheep hunting is popular. At least 10,000 hunters apply each year for a once-in-a-lifetime North Dakota license, while the state gives out only a handful on average. The deadline for hunters to apply for the tentative season is midnight Wednesday. If a season is not held, application fees of $5 for resident hunters and $100 for out-of-state hunters will not be refunded.

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HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — County commissioners in southwestern Ohio are balking at the cost of repairing a 112-year-old building that holds historic artifacts and war records.

Estimates for renovating the Soldiers, Sailors and Pioneers Monument in Hamilton have doubled to nearly $1 million.

At least two Butler County commissioners are questioning whether it makes sense to spend that much money on the building that honors those who served the nation and settled the area.

The monument holds uniforms, cannons, bayonets, documents, and other items dating back to the Civil War era.

The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News (http://bit.ly/1pYldf3 ) reports that repairs are needed to fix its crumbling ceiling, windows and cleaning a bronze sculpture at the top.

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By NANCY CAMBRIA

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Clinton-Peabody housing complex is home to some of the poorest, most underemployed families in St. Louis, and yet it may become a nationally recognized incubator for highly trained child-care providers.

In April, a group of about 15 residents, mostly single mothers, will begin a unique federally funded apprenticeship program in early childhood education, similar to the types of programs that for decades have trained plumbers, electricians and carpenters, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1pFluDM ) reports.

The apprenticeship in child care is the first of its kind in the nation, and is being touted as a model for other cities.

Advocates in the child-care community have long lamented the dearth of qualified child-care providers, particularly in poorer communities. Mostly, women enter the field, and many in these neighborhoods are also poor and lack training and education. They often find themselves in low-paying positions in unlicensed and unaccredited facilities with high turnover.

Participants who complete the program will get just the opposite: Five weeks of intensive early childhood teacher training, 480 hours of paid on-the-job training at licensed and accredited centers, and an additional year-and-a-half of mentoring as they work at the centers. At the end of the process they will receive formal certification as a Childhood Development Associate without ever having to attend a community college or four-year college.

That certification is considered the golden ticket into better paying child-care jobs in accredited and higher quality child-care centers, including federally funded Head Start programs. The theory is that a growing apprenticeship program could eventually flood the market with better child-care providers in the neighborhoods that need them the most.

"This is a win-win with this," said Steven Zwolak, chief executive of LUME Institute, which will provide the child-care training and mentoring for the project. "The turnover rate in child care is between 25 to 45 percent across the country. We can't find teachers with the degrees to stay and make centers with better quality."

Bonita Anderson is a Clinton-Peabody resident. As a formal community "coach" she's been actively recruiting other mothers to take part in the apprenticeship. She said most of the mothers in the complex cannot juggle traditional community college education with their poor finances and their need for child care, so the apprenticeship makes sense.

Indeed, more than 90 percent of the 358 families in the complex in the Near Southside neighborhood off downtown are headed by single women with children. More than half of the employable adults in the complex don't work. Average income for the households is $7,200, the lowest of all the city-managed, low-income housing developments, said Cheryl Lovell, executive director of the St. Louis Housing Authority.

Anderson, 34 and the mother of seven, said she has been caring for her children and those of relatives for years. She knows she has some ability, but she is eager to get training and certification for employment that could lead to a career.

"It's going to give me a head start on what I don't know and what I need to know," she said.

Anderson said child-care training is particularly attractive to the many moms living in Clinton-Peabody because child care for their own children has always been a barrier to employment. The program will help participants register their younger children for child care through the state subsidy program. There's hope they will get be able to enroll them in the child cares where they are doing their apprenticeships to reduce transportation issues, Anderson said.

A natural fit

The program is being supported by two federal grants. Last year, the St. Louis Housing Authority received a $3 million, four-year Jobs Plus grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to develop unique apprenticeship programs based out of Clinton-Peabody, one of the largest and poorest low-income housing complexes in St. Louis. That grant enabled the authority to hire community-based "coaches" like Anderson to recruit other residents for such programs as computer programming and coding.

Lovell, of the Housing Authority, said early in the grant process the residents were polled by the coaches about various job fields they would like to enter, and child care was repeatedly mentioned.

The actual child care apprenticeship was formally established through a three-year, $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor being shared between St. Louis, Milwaukee and Detroit. The St. Louis portion is being managed by SLATE, the St. Louis Agency on Training and Employment. The agency, in turn, partnered with LUME Institute of University City which provides high quality early childhood education training.

Representatives from all three agencies said it made sense to focus the child-care apprenticeship on the families in Clinton-Peabody given the Jobs Plus grant and the stated desires of many residents interested in child care. The apprenticeship is also open to participants who are unemployed or underemployed but do not reside in the housing development.

Under the terms of the grant, the apprenticeship will be piloted in St. Louis, then replicated in Milwaukee and Detroit.

"It's a very natural fit," said Lovell of the housing authority. "We have residents that want jobs and are interested in this field because one of the main barriers for residents to be employed is the lack of child care."

Apprentices will be paid $9.50 an hour to start. Upon receiving their certificate, they can expect to earn $13 an hour. The certification also equals nine hours of college credit, which later could be applied toward earning a bachelor's degree, for further advancement in the child care field.

Zwolak said participants will likely get better training and support than in a traditional college setting because so much of their experience will be hands-on in high quality child care centers with individual mentoring. This will likely result in a smoother transition into a full-time job, he said.

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