More Montana parents and caregivers will have the opportunity to prepare their children for success with reading thanks to a new partnership between the Montana Office of Public Instruction and the Hopa Mountain Foundation.  Juneau's office recently announced the purchase of 5,400 high quality books for Montana children ages 0–5 living in families with limited access to early learning resources.

Juneau says she hopes the partnership will give parents and caregivers tools and information to help them prepare their children to become successful readers and learners. Hopa Mountain, a Montana–based non–profit that heads up a statewide literacy initiative, will match the purchase in the spring of 2010. Read more here or here.