A recent study, Failed Policies, Forfeited Futures: A Nationwide Scorecard on Juvenile Records, from the Juvenile Law Center ranks Wisconsin on the low end (22%) as it relates to confidentiality of juvenile records and a little above average (56% compared to the national average of 49%) in terms of the potential for a youth to have...
With over one in two black children and over one in five children overall in Wisconsin growing up in poverty, we cannot afford to wait longer to change the future for them and our state. The Annie E. Casey Foundation KIDS COUNT project has just released in Creating Opportunity for Families: A Two-Generation Approach, a report that...
Nearly every public school elementary district in Wisconsin is now offering 4-year-old Kindergarten (4K) to all four-year-olds, according to preliminary data from the Department of Public Instruction. Nearly 50,000 children were enrolled in 4K in the 2013-14 school year. With five additional districts offering 4K in 2014-15, it is...
Wisconsin dropped eight places in rankings and is struggling to insure children in rural areas A new report by a Georgetown University research center found that Wisconsin is no longer the leader that it once was in reducing the uninsured rate for children. The good news is that the percentage of Wisconsin kids with insurance still...
To the long list of reasons why state lawmakers should expand BadgerCare and accept the federal funding for that purpose, we can add another. It’s immensely popular. On a day when conservative lawmakers were doing exceptionally well across most of the country, a number of progressive ballot measures stood up to that tide and scored...
Northwestern University researchers have published a study on Head Start’s impact on parents’ educational achievement. Researchers Terri Sabol and Lindsay Chase-Lansdale used data from the Head Start Impact Study to ask: “If children are randomly assigned to Head Start, do their parents advance their own education?” The results are...
Voters in many parts of Wisconsin will have an opportunity next Tuesday (Nov. 4th) to tell state lawmakers whether they should reverse the decision to turn down federal funding to cover more adults in BadgerCare. There are many reasons why people should vote “yes” on that referendum question – to support taking the federal funding –...
A new publication, Being Black is Not a Risk Factor, has been published by the Milwaukee Black Child Development Institute (BCDI). Here is a summary from BCDI’s press release: “Similar to the national report, the goal of the Wisconsin report is to provide data-rich information on how our children are doing, and to address the needs of...
A Marketplace Special Enrollment Period Ends on Nov. 2nd About 63,000 Wisconsinites lost their BadgerCare eligibility in April, and a large portion of them are now uninsured -- as the following pie chart illustrates. But those who can afford to purchase a subsidized private plan through the federal health insurance Marketplace still...
Participation of Childless Adults in BadgerCare Far Exceeds Forecasts, While Parent and Child Enrollment Continues to Fall The cost to state taxpayers of turning down federal funding for expansion of BadgerCare will be substantially higher the next time the Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) makes that calculation. The potential savings...
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