2013 Fall Quarterly Meeting Agenda
Tuesday, October 29th 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. – WHSA Board of Directors Meeting 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. – Conference Steering Committee Meeting [divider] Wednesday, October 30th 8:30 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. – Professional and Leadership Development Work Group 10:00...
Wisconsin Head Start and You
Wisconsin Head Start and Early Head Start programs have touched the lives of countless children and their families over the years. These programs work for us all; for children, for families, for communities. And those who have participated know this and have welcomed...
Study: States’ Methods for Rating Preschool Quality Fail to Predict Children’s Readiness for Kindergarten
AUGUST 22, 2013 AUDREY BREEN According to findings published today in the journal Science, publicly funded pre-kindergarten classrooms that received the highest marks in quality rating systems used by the majority of states are no better at fostering children’s...
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,...
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