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Montana politics, elections and legislative news

Montana To Get $10 Million In Grants For Preschools

Denise Juneau, Montana superintendent of public instruction.
MT OPI

Montana is receiving $10 million in federal grants to set up preschool programs and train teachers in sixteen communities around the state. The money would provide preschool programs for 4-year-olds from low and moderate-income families. Schools Superintendent Denise Juneau says this grant is separate from the Governor’s proposal to fund a new statewide preschool program.
 
“This grant was specifically received because of the communities that we’re working with and the high-needs populations in those communities, and the governor’s legislative proposal is of course a state wide effort.”
 
Governor Steve Bullock is proposing a $37 million program to make preschool available to four-year-olds across the state regardless of income.  The legislature turned down a similar proposal in 2013.
 

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