A battered child care industry’s latest challenge? Competing for 4-year-olds.
A 2019 state law requiring schools to offer full-day pre-K is capturing child care’s most profitable customer base: 3- and 4-year-olds.
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A 2019 state law requiring schools to offer full-day pre-K is capturing child care’s most profitable customer base: 3- and 4-year-olds.
Garcia White, who was sentenced to death in 1996 for murdering 16-year-old twins, was also linked to killing three others. He would be the fifth Texas inmate executed in 2024.
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