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Governor Bullock, Superintendent Juneau Encourage Congressional Delegation to Restore Preschool Funding to Budget

Highlighting the important benefits of early childhood education, Governor Steve Bullock and Superintendent Denise Juneau today sent a letter to Montana’s federal lawmakers asking them to restore funding to the successful Preschool Development Grant program. Funding for the program would be eliminated under spending bills moving through Congress.

"The Preschool Development Grant is critical for our state to build, develop, and expand high-quality preschool programs so children from low-and moderate-income families have the opportunity enter kindergarten ready to succeed in school and in life," Bullock and Juneau said in the letter. "We urge you to stand with Montana’s earliest learners, their families and their teachers, and work to fully fund the Preschool Development Grants."

Montana is one of 18 states that received preschool development grants to expand access to high-quality preschool programs. The grant provides the state with $10 million a year, for four years, to expand or establish preschool programs in 21 high-needs communities. The grant is estimated to provide preschool education to more than 6,000 four-year-olds in the state over the next four years.

Full Story: http://governor.mt.gov/Newsroom/ArtMID/28487/ArticleID/1714

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