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.
The Department of Public Instruction (DPI) announced some good news today: the number of Wisconsin school districts offering four-year-old kindergarten (4K) has more than doubled during the last ten years and has now reached 90 percent of all districts. The number of children in 4K programs has almost tripled during that time, reaching...
Expenditure Trends: The Wisconsin Shares child care subsidy program is on track to spend about $25 million less than budgeted in subsidy payments in the second year of the biennium ending June 30, 2013. The budget projection by the Department of Children and Families for Wisconsin Shares subsidy payments for SFY 2013 was $273.3 million....
WCCF advocates based on what the evidence shows is best for children and families. Taken together, the following policy priorities point towards a future that fulfills the promise of our state motto, “Forward,”
The evidence is clear – frequent school suspensions place youth at greater risk of a host of “rotten outcomes”, not the least of which is involvement in the juvenile or criminal justice system. Noting that this is a nationwide problem, Senator Dick Durbin held a hearing last Wednesday of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the...
Wisconsin Council on Children and Families (WCCF) has just released a new publication, YoungStar in Wisconsin: An Analysis of Data as of July 2012. This report is the third in a series of progress reports since the YoungStar quality rating and improvement system was launched in 2011. Key findings include: Nearly half of low-income...
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