This report is an update of prior reports and includes data up through 2014. Many of the trends noted in the earlier report have continued, as juvenile arrests have continued to decline and we have seen a growth in support for successful community-based programs.
As the battle about the impact of early education rages, yet another study appears. North Carolina has evaluated the long-term effects of its pre-k program and found relationships between pre-k participation and 3rd grade math and reading skills. According to the study, Long-term effects of the North Carolina Pre-K program (by...
A group of comprehensive new bills which aim to keep youth out of the adult criminal justice system has been introduced to the Michigan state legislature. The Youth in Prison package, which has bi-partisan support, takes recommendations from the Michigan Council on Crime and Delinquency’s recent Youth Behind Bars report and includes...
Child Care Aware has released a Wisconsin Child Care Fact Sheet, with up-to-date info on: Children under 6 likely needing child care: 296,986 Working mothers: with children under 6: 226,313 Regulated child care capacity: 136,519 Annual cost of full-day care in a center: Infant: $11,579 4-year-old: $9,469 School-age: $8,849...
A new study on the impacts of Pre-K in Tennessee has triggered the ongoing controversy about the effectiveness of early education. An article in the New York Times, Does PreK Make Any Difference? provides an analysis of several studies on Pre-K and its impact by David Kirp, a professor of public policy at University of...
As part of a Kentucky court case in which two elementary students were handcuffed by the SRO, the US Department of Justice submitted a Statement of Interest about the how SRO’s should deal with youth, particular students with disabilities. In the statement, DOJ focused on: 1) Intended Roles of School Resource Officers: SROs should have...
Wisconsin’s leadership in providing access to health insurance has been gradually slipping, and the latest Census Bureau data on coverage of children illustrates a continuation of that trend. Although Wisconsin continues to have one of the lower uninsured rates in the U.S., we’ve fallen behind all of our neighbors, as the following...
Economist James Heckman and several colleagues determined that people who had received high-quality early care and education in the 1970s were far healthier thirty years later. The report, The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviors from the National Bureau of Economic Research, used...
Greater Opportunity for Wisconsinites Would Help Level the Playing Field With far too many Wisconsinites struggling to make ends meet, it is clear that communities of color are facing this challenge most acutely. New Census data released last week highlights the need for Wisconsin lawmakers to do more to expand opportunity and make it...
The number of Wisconsin children living in poverty has risen dramatically since the recession and stayed high, according to recent numbers released by the U.S. Census Bureau. In 2014, nearly a quarter of a million children in Wisconsin lived below the poverty line, meaning their families did not earn enough to provide for basic...
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