Senator Tony Strickland (R-Thousand Oaks) joined Sheriff Bill Brown in reading to children at the Kinko’s Early Learning Center in Santa Barbara (October 27, 2009)

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Senator Tony Strickland (R-Thousand Oaks) joined Sheriff Bill Brown in reading to children at the Kinko’s Early Learning Center in Santa Barbara (October 27, 2009)

Nov 5th 2009

Senator Strickland and Sheriff Brown toured the classroom and also met with several preschool experts to discuss the benefits of high-quality preschool programs and the need for continued investments in early education.

Decades of research has shown than an effective preschool experience is one of the best crime-prevention tools around. It is also an effective dropout-prevention tool. Studies show that children who attend a high-quality preschool are 44 percent more likely to graduate from high school.