Legislative background -- The public-nonprofit sponsorship position in the contemporary debate over child care services -- Church sponsorship and the religious function -- For-profit sponsorship and the economic function -- Employer sponsorship and the economic function -- Public school sponsorship and the education function -- The context of the past debate -- Private sponsorship of kindergartens -- Free kindergartens -- Kindergartens under the sponsorship of social settlements, churches, corporations, and the Women's Temperance Union -- Public school sponsorship of the kindergarten -- Policy implications
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-440) and index
