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California governor wants to expand preschool and create new early child development department

“We don’t want to go slow here. We just want to do this right. It’s high-quality access to affordable preschool and child care. Let us not make the mistake of getting ahead of ourselves. Let’s do this right and thoughtfully,” Newsom said.

The Real Cost of Closing Rural Schools

While the financial benefit of closing small rural schools is questionable, the political, economic, and social costs are all too real.

Columbia Falls, Montana moves ahead with 3% resort tax proposal

If approved, the resort tax would be in effect for 20 years.

Strategic Action for Affordable Housing: How Advocacy Organizations Accomplish Policy Change

Whether the solution involves tenant protections, reducing the amount of single-family zoning, or changing state regulation, AOs are always thinking about housing policy solutions.

The MDT Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program

The MDT Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program encourages and supports the participation of companies owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals in transportation contracts.

Creating change: Missoula’s Holly Truitt teaching design lab at Stanford

“We would be delighted to bring the Stanford d. experience to the Montana University System and Tribal College institutions, if interested,” she said. “We are always looking for partners to co-create with.”

Four issues to track as Montana lawmakers gather for Legislative Week

The event is billed, in part, as an opportunity to explore whether Montana would be better served by annual sessions.

Zero bikers or pedestrians were killed by cars in Oslo last year: What can the U.S. learn from its success?

“In most of our U.S. cities and our nation, we don’t prioritize human life.”

More than 100 MSU nursing students pursuing bachelor’s degrees to help with 2020 census

The project, known as Nursing Counts for Montana, aims to ensure that every person living in Montana is accounted for in the census, which happens only once every decade.

Today’s TED Talk -What a digital government looks like

What if you never had to fill out paperwork again? In Estonia, this is a reality: citizens conduct nearly all public services online, from starting a business to voting from their laptops, thanks to the nation’s ambitious post-Soviet digital transformation known as “e-Estonia.”

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