Idaho falls further behind in early-child education spending

Lawmakers have said families, not the state, should teach toddlers.

Twenty-six states across the country increased their support for early-child education in the past year, according to a report by the Education Commission of the States due out this month.

Twenty-two were in red states, said Bruce Atchison, director of the commission’s Early Learning Institute.

You can’t count Idaho among them because the state is one of nine that has refused to put taxpayer money into running preschool programs. The other eight are Arizona, Montana, Indiana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming.

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By BILL ROBERTS

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