University of Montana, Missoula County Public Schools Launch New Inclusive Early Learning Partnership at LAB School

The University of Montana and Missoula County Public Schools have partnered this fall to improve early childhood programming for students with disabilities. The effort, they hope, can serve as a model for other early childhood literacy and numeracy programs across the state.

Through this new collaboration, one of the classrooms at the Learning and Belonging School, or LAB School, at UM’s Phyllis J. Washington College of Education is being co-taught by a LAB school teacher and a special education teacher from MCPS, improving special education for students. About half the students in this environment pay the standard tuition to attend the LAB School, and the tuition for the remaining students is covered by MCPS.

By Skylar Rispens, UM News Service