A three-part summary of research on early childhood development was commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help Washington state leaders make the best policy on early learning. With the explosion of early childhood research, it is sometimes difficult to see the forest through the trees. I found these papers...
In a consensus letter, over 600 researchers and scholars have signed on urging policymakers at all levels to support greater investment in high-quality early childhood education. The letter released includes a wide range of distinguished signatories, including James Heckman, T. Berry Brazelton, Jack Shonkoff, Barbara Bowman, Sharon Lynn...
WCCF has just released a Detention Data Report 2013, a summary of data from the Juvenile Secure Detention Register (JSDR) managed by the Department of Justice. All Juvenile Detention facilities are required to report admission data through the JSDR. In 2013 there were 7,695 youth admitted to the state's Juvenile Detention facilities....
A window of opportunity recently opened for individuals who want affordable health care for them and their families. The annual open enrollment period for insurance plans offered through the Federally Facilitated Marketplace (FFM) began Saturday, November 15 and ends on February 15, 2015. Approximately 139,000 Wisconsinites purchased a...
WCCF has just released a Detention Data Report 2013, a summary of data from the Juvenile Secure Detention Register (JSDR) managed by the Department of Justice. All Juvenile Detention facilities are required to report admission data through the JSDR. In 2013 there were 7,695 youth admitted to the state's Juvenile Detention facilities....
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...
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