Woman pleads for support of GED program

A local woman made an impassioned plea to legislators to retain funding for an education program she said has changed her son's life.

Gylinda Gonzales said during a legislative video conference in Havre Wednesday that the YouthBuild program and the state Adult Basic Literacy and Education GED preparation has turned around her son, David Gonzales.

"I would hate to see somebody else not be able to get their kid there. My son would not have graduated high school. He would have been on food stamps, he would have been on Medicaid, who knows what crime he would have been into …, " Gylinda Gonza...