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August
2004
 The
Availability and Quality of Child Care in Southwestern
Pennsylvania: 2004 Overview
In
2000, the Allegheny Conference on Community Development
established a visionary goal for the southwestern Pennsylvania
region - by the year 2010 every 10-year-old should be proficient
in reading and mathematics. The Allegheny Conference believes that
in order to attract new jobs and new residents to southwestern
Pennsylvania, the region must ensure that every child enters the
workforce proficient in basic skills. Unfortunately, fewer than
two-thirds of the fifth-graders (the typical grade for
10-year-olds) in the 10-county region meet state proficiency
standards in either reading or math or both, and there has been
little improvement over the past three years. 
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