Promising Futures child care scholarship bill advances in Tennessee Senate

A bill to create a scholarship program to help Tennessee's low- and middle-income families pay for high-quality early child care cleared its first legislative hurdle -- even as some lawmakers questioned whether funding child care should be the state's responsibility.

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