From Early Childhood Focus

Luna wants to keep parenting skills program despite Otter cuts

Posted in: Idaho

By Sheila Holland
June 5, 2007

Superintendent of public instruction Tom Luna says an early childhood education program that Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter wants eliminated should be saved.

Luna says the Parents as Teachers program does an excellent job and that children who participate in it enter first grade with higher test scores.

The Parents as Teachers program teaches parents how to keep young children healthy and prepare them for school.

The program is scheduled to end in two weeks.

Luna says he has been meeting with Otter and the Department of Health and Welfare to find money to keep the program going.

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