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Billings, Montana Leaders Stress Strong Support for Early Childhood Education

Oct 25th 2011




Yellowstone County Attorney Scott Twito (at center) reads to children enrolled in a Billings Head Start program.To his right is Yellowstone County Attorney Mike Linder.

The Montana leaders participated in a news conference and visit to a Head Start program where they expressed strong support for early care and education for the nation's youngest children as a way to cut crime and reduce corrections costs. They called on the Super-Committee to avoid not make cuts that would undermine the nation's most cost-effective programs for young children.