Head Start Cuts Services For More Than 57,000 Children Due To Sequestration – HuffPost
WASHINGTON -- Head Start, the federal pre-K education service for low-income families, has eliminated services for more than 57,000 children in the coming school year as a result of the federal budget reductions known as sequestration. .... read complete article below...
Child Care Unaffordable For Low-Income Families (INFOGRAPHIC)
Child care costs have risen in recent years while the federal minimum wage has not. In most states, a single parent working a minimum wage job 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year,
Sequestration Pushes Head Start Families To The Precipice – Huffington Post
Powerful article published by the Huffington Post. b y POSTED: 0 7 / 0 9 / 2 0 1 3 6 :0 1 A M EDT | UPDA TED: 0 7 / 0 9 / 2 0 1 3 8:2 0 A M EDT | JULY 9 , 2 0 1 3 Link to original article WASHINGTON -- Rhonda Reynolds was paying bills in downtown Pratt, Kan., on a hot...
Registration is now open – WHSA Fall Quarterly – Register by Oct 18th
October 30-31, 2013
WHSA invites Director, Parent, and Staff Affiliate representatives as well as Education, Disabilities, and Mental Health Managers to join us at the WHSA Fall Quarterly meeting.
2013 ‘Poverty Matters!’ Conference – CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
WISCAP must receive the completed form by July 19, 2013. Requests for Poverty Matters! Conference Workshop Proposals The 2013 WISCAP ‘Poverty Matters!’ conference will be held September 25 - 26, 2013, at the Radisson Paper Valley Hotel in Appleton, Wisconsin. This...
Education Department Releases Guidance to Help Schools Better Support Pregnant and Parenting Students’ Academic Success
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced today that the Department of Education has issued a Dear Colleague letter and accompanying pamphlet on supporting the academic success of pregnant and parenting students under Title IX. This pamphlet updates and...
An Overview of Joint Finance Action on Child Care Issues in the 2013-15 Budget
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 2013 Data Book
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 file="https://whsaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/2013KIDSCOUNTDataBookr2.pdf"...
2013 Summer Quarterly Agenda
WHSA Summer Quarterly Meeting Agenda Tuesday June 25, 2013 1 pm– 5 pm | WHSA Board and Director Affiliate – Strategic Planning 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm | WHSA Conference Steering Committee meeting [divider] Wednesday, June 26, 2013 10 am – 5 pm Fiscal - How will you manage...
A Troubling Trend Continues: A Growing Share of Wisconsin Schoolchildren are Low-Income
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...
APA Task force on Childhood Poverty A STRATEGIC ROAD-MAP
"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 age,...
Infant and Toddler Care and Education in Milwaukee 2012
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 Head Start Receives 2013 Best of Green Bay Award
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...
Head Start Can Help Children and Parents Learn to Save
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 preparing...
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