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House Bill 628 would expand early‑literacy program to include numeracy and allow limited on‑target student enrollment
Summary
House Bill 628 would broaden Montana’s early literacy targeted intervention into an "early scholastic" program, add early numeracy and permit optional enrollment of a limited number of on‑target students to participate alongside eligible children, the bill sponsor told the Senate Education Committee.
Representative Melissa Nicholas introduced House Bill 628 to refine Montana’s targeted early‑literacy intervention program by renaming it to encompass broader scholastic skills, adding numeracy, and allowing limited enrollment of ‘on‑target’ (not‑at‑risk) children as models in classrooms and summer jump‑start programs.
Nicholas told the committee the bill "gives schools an option to have a few model students in the early literacy classrooms…
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