ON THE JOB TRAINING--Rookie Columbus Police officer Mark Reader gets his feet wet as he learns the art of directing traffic at the intersection of Broad and High Sts. in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 1997.

HEAD START LEADER--University of Cincinnati researcher Larry Johnson points toward a chart, during a new conference concerning the Head Start program, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 1997. Gov. George Voinovice announced that Ohio leads the nation in state funding for Head Start and in the percentage of children enrolled in the program.