The Wisconsin Council on Children and Families (WCCF) has released “The Current Status of Wisconsin’s Child Care Workforce,” the third policy brief in the Pathways . . . to Early Childhood Education series exploring career pathways in early childhood...
A second continuing resolution (CR) for FY 2011 Appropriations has amended the first CR signed into law on September 30, 2010. The second CR extends the CR expiration date by 15 days to allow continued government operations at FY 2010 levels through December 18...
December 5 to 11, 2010 is National Handwashing Awareness Week. Keeping hands clean is one of the most important steps we can take to avoid getting sick and spreading germs to others. Learn more about handwashing safety from the Centers for Disease Control and...
On November 22, the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families (DCF) submitted its five year plan for YoungStar, the state’s approved childcare quality rating improvement system (QRIS), to the Joint Finance Committee (JFC). As requested by JFC, the five year...
The newest and fourth CONNECT module, Family-Professional Partnerships, from the Center to Mobilize Early Childhood Knowledge is now available. Family-Professional Partnerships focuses on effective practices for developing trusting family-professional partnerships in...
The Budgeting for National Priorities Project at the Brookings Institution, in cooperation with Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity and the Hudson Institute, will host two back-to-back expert panel presentations for “Should the Disadvantaged be Spared from the...
The Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention for Young Children (TACSEI) has developed a “Making Life Easier” series of tipsheets for parents and caregivers to help them make often challenging situations easier to navigate for both...
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) has added an “Early Childhood Development Interagency Coordination” page to its website. Over the past two years ACF and related Federal agencies have worked to establish “a more integrated focal...
