Lebanon Daily News: Lebanon officials: lnvesting in early education can cut crime

“One of the best ways to fight crime is through early education.

Unfortunately, sufficient funding for those programs is lacking.

Those were the messages delivered Wednesday morning at Lebanon’s Southeast Elementary School by Steve Doster, deputy director of Fight Crime: Invest in Kids PA.

Doster, whose organization boasts a membership of 5,000 law enforcement officials nationwide, was at Southeast to lobby Sen. Mike Folmer and Rep. Mauree Gingrich for more early childhood education funding, especially for children living in impoverished households.”

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