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  • Public Instruction Candidates Clash Over Standards, Resources, Local Control

    Melisa Penman|Oct 31, 2012

    Incumbent Denise Juneau is banking that a statewide initiative, Graduation Matters Montana, can bring the number of high school dropouts, nearly 2,000 a year, down by 50 percent by 2014. As state superintendent of public instruction she has sought to use her office to build programs she says are necessary to prepare students for a modern economy. It is also, she hopes, the kind of program that will earn her re-election this fall. “It is important to me to continue the progress that we have made,” said Juneau, a member of the Mandan and Hid...