The JFC budget cuts $31 million from child care over the 2013-15 biennium, meanwhile siphoning off $19 million per year and laundering it through the EITC so that it can be used for unrelated purposes, such as a huge income tax cut that mostly helps the wealthy....
KidsCount has new and revised data about Wisconsin children: http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data#WI/2/0 Some data is available by county or school district. [gview...
by TAMARINE CORNELIUS Original article Tuesday, May 21, 2013 The number of Wisconsin children who are from low-income families has climbed for the ninth straight year, according to a new report from the state’s Department of Public Instruction. In the 2012-13 school...
“Recently, there has been a lot of focus on the idea of toxic stress, in which a young child’s body and brain may be damaged by too much exposure to so-called stress hormones, like cortisol and norepinephrine. When this level of stress is experienced at an early...
Wisconsin Council on Children and Families (WCCF) has just released a new publication, Infant and Toddler Care and Education in Milwaukee 2012. The YoungStar quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) is being rolled out, bringing greater focus to the quality of...
Green Bay Award Program Honors the Achievement GREEN BAY April 24, 2013 Green Bay Head Start has been selected for the 2013 Best of Green Bay Award in the Kindergartens category by the Green Bay Award Program. Each year, the Green Bay Award Program identifies...
Andrea Levere, Corporation for Enterprise Development and Sterling Speirn, W.K. Kellogg Foundation – Posted April 1, 2013 Every year, Head Start reaches nearly one million children—and their parents. This federal program has long played a critical role in...
WKOW.com Madison Posted: Mar 26, 2013 6:08 PM CDT By Jennifer Kliese – bio | email VIDEO MADISON (WKOW) — It’s been more than three weeks since the sequester kicked in, causing cuts across the board to many federal programs. One of those...
