Research has shown that the first five years play an enormous role in a child’s ongoing development and future success. Since most kids are in a child care or preschool setting while their parents are at work, it’s critical that we invest in a high-quality early education system that provides the experiences kids need for healthy development.
WCCF has been analyzing the significant decline of children enrolled in the Wisconsin Shares child care subsidy program. This blog looks at two significant trends: Statewide drop in children served: An extraordinary drop overall drop of 13,566 children, a 23% drop from 2009-2014. The smaller the county the greater the drop in children...
New YoungStar Report The Wisconsin Council on Children and Families (WCCF) has recently completed a policy brief, YoungStar: We’re Turning Five! Five Year Analysis as of July 2015 (here is a link to the full report). The YoungStar child care quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) is a breakthrough policy initiative that has great...
This report is the sixth in a series of WCCF reports tracking the progress of Wisconsin’s YoungStar program, a quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) launched in 2010 to improve the quality of Wisconsin child care programs. YoungStar focuses on children of low-income working families receiving assistance from the Wisconsin Shares...
The Economic Policy Institute just issued a report, Child care workers aren't paid enough to make ends meet. Not startling news to those in the early childhood field, but the data is stunning, and provides Wisconsin-specific information: Some key findings: Child care workers receive very low hourly pay Very few child care workers...
Last month the Department of Children and Families (DCF) released the first part of a two-part multi-year study of the YoungStar quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) for child care. Here is a link to the Executive Summary. The study was done by Katherine Magnuson, PhD who is at UW-Madison. Her conclusion is that yes, "star...
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