Almost 98% of Districts Now Offer 4K in Wisconsin
The Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has announced that, with the addition of four more communities, 97.6% of Wisconsin school districts offer four-year-old kindergarten (4K). Enrollment for...
View ArticleChild Care: The Big Picture for Reform
As we in Wisconsin battle to make modest child care policy improvements after a decade of reduction in child care investment, I am sending this Policy Paper by Economic Policy Institute that clearly...
View ArticleBusiness Leaders Say Learning Social and Emotional Skills in Early Childhood...
A new report, Social-Emotional Skills in Early Childhood Support Workforce Success, has just been released from ReadyNation, a national group of business leaders. ReadyNation is part of the Council for...
View ArticleLet’s Make Wisconsin A State Where Every Child Is Ready for School
More than 1,200 researchers agree that quality early care and education produces better education, health, economic, and social outcomes for children, families, and the nation. Despite this, Wisconsin...
View ArticleFormer Green Bay Packer Supports Wisconsin Home Visiting in USA Today
The Packer great, Ahman Green, says in his USA Today column that home visiting can help parents and children live better, healthier, more self-sufficient lives. The article, Green: Renew, expand...
View ArticleSteep Decline in Regulated Family Child Care
The decline of family child care was a topic recently when the Joint Finance Committee members discussed issues with the Department of Children and Families (DCF) on March 29, 2017. Senator Sheila...
View ArticleChildren Learn by Playing
The Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has released a video Play is the Way! to emphasize the importance of play in early learning and development. The short video, starring Sheila Briggs,...
View ArticleJoint Finance Approves $3.9 Million for Home Visiting and Rejects $34 million...
First, the good news. The Joint Committee on Finance unanimously approved the Governor’s proposal for a $3.9 million increase for home visiting in each year of the biennium. The support for home...
View ArticleWisconsin Ranked 4th in the Nation in Access to Early Education for 4-year-olds
According to the recently released 2016 report on preschool nationwide, Wisconsin is ranked 4th in the nation for the percentage of 4-year-olds in state-funded Pre-Kindergarten programs in the 2015-16...
View ArticleNew Study: YoungStar Needs Help
A new study: Rating YoungStar – How Wisconsin’s child care quality rating and improvement measures up by the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute (WPRI) carefully analyzes the last few years of...
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