STARS Montana Early Education Program

Do online preschools offer the same learning benefits to children and cost savings to family budgets that online ed claims to offer for older learners?

The uniform desire across the state to invest in early childhood education was striking to Sam Meisels, executive director of the Buffett Institute at the University of Nebraska.

In a contentious political environment with few opportunities for bipartisan commitments, cultivating evidence-based strategies supports positive change for our young children by assessing current and past risk factors and access, and tracking outcomes in the future.

Forty-nine percent of Idaho’s kindergartners show up not ready to learn to read, according to the results of the state’s reading indicator evaluation.

The 44-year-old actress spent the weekend lobbying the town’s pillars of power to support early education for poor rural children.

The sooner we view pre-K as a long-term educational, economic, and workforce development strategy, the sooner we can build the necessary network of high-quality preschool options. Our kids deserve access to quality pre-K. Our state needs the long-lasting benefits these programs can deliver.

The return on investment can be as high as $13 for every $1 spent.

But at this opportunity time, is that it? But again, I’m going to reiterate, if the Legislature does so happen, because it would take that opportunity to occur, if that happens, then I would do that within my power and with your energy in this room, to put that forward for our neediest and our youngest. I will not impede that." Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen

Minnesota plans to join Salt Lake City in a novel approach to paying for public education: using "social bonds" to fund early childhood learning.

One Montana parent who participated in the program last year said that the program "helped me realize that I am not the only parent having these issues with my children. It offers strategies that can get you back on track with teaching and helping your child develop into an adult."