Hillary Clinton Proposes More Funding for Early Childhood Education

In New Hampshire, the Democratic frontrunner rolls out the first in what will be a series of policy proposals.

Former U.S. Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a forum on early childhood education at the YMCA of Strafford County June 15, 2015 in Rochester, New Hampshire.
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By Jennifer Epstein

June 15, 2015 at 3:49 PM UTC

Updated on

June 15, 2015 at 7:33 PM UTC

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Hillary Clinton embraced her new role as a grandmother and her longer-term one as a child advocate on Monday, offering up proposals on early childhood education and calling for tax cuts to help middle-class parents pay for child care..

It was Clinton's first set of policy proposals kicking off a summer of planned rollouts. Speaking at a YMCA in Rochester, N.H., Clinton revealed some details of the approach she’d take if elected, including the goal of ensuring that “in the next 10 years every 4-year-old has access to high-quality preschool.”