Fact Sheet III
Investing in Education and Training for Our Families
"Let's give our children a future. Let us take away their guns and give them books." President Clinton January 24, 1995The typical college graduate earns 74 percent more than a worker with a high school degree.Expanded Student Loans
The Student Loan Reform Act, which includes the President's Direct Lending Program, lowers interest rates for students and allows for flexible income contingent repayment plans. The act also saves taxpayers billions of dollars.Promoted National Service and Educational Opportunity
President Clinton created AmeriCorps so young people can serve their communities -- teaching, caring for the sick, making the streets safer -- while earning money toward their education. Already, 20,000 American women and men serve in AmeriCorps.Enhanced School-to-Work Opportunities
With bipartisan support, President Clinton signed into law the School-to-Work Opportunities Act, the most important national program ever to provide apprenticeships for students who don't go on to college. School-to-Work helps all young people -- including the 70 percent who don't get four-year degrees -- to get the education they need to obtain good jobs.Advanced Improved Standards for Education
This legislation sets world class education standards in areas of math and science and provides voluntary assistance to states and communities to implement education reform. In addition, the President supported the Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act which helps to improve basic and advanced skills for low-income students.Expanded Head Start
President Clinton has expanded Head Start services while improving the program's quality and making it more responsive to the needs of local communities. The President's increase in funding for Head Start will allow 50,000 more children to take advantage of the program by the year 2002. The Administration has also launched an innovative program to give infants and toddlers an Early Head Start.Safe and Drug-Free Schools
This President-supported program expands security and violence prevention in schools across the nation by teaching students the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse and teaching them alternatives to violence.Expanding Lifelong Learning
The President has proposed a "G.I. Bill of Rights for Workers" to reform job training programs and put resources and information directly into workers' hands. Lifelong Learning is critical for our workers to compete successfully in the new global marketplace.
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