by Ruth Schmidt | Feb 16, 2022 | Advocacy, Best Practices, Policy, Press Release, Workforce
by Ruth Schmidt High-quality, affordable and accessible child care is critical. Wisconsin parents know it, business and community leaders know it and child care professionals know it. With the state legislature’s Joint Finance Committee recent unanimous approval of...
by Ruth Schmidt | Dec 1, 2021 | Advocacy, Best Practices, Policy, Workforce
WECA announces the release of its recommendations brief, “The State of Wisconsin’s Early Care and Education Workforce,” in response to key findings of the Series of Studies of the Wisconsin Early Education Workforce, published today by the Department of Children and...
by Grace Reef | May 17, 2021 | Advocacy, Best Practices, Policy, Workforce
by: Grace Reef, Senior Outreach Consultant at Committee for Economic Development (CED) The good news is that the President and Congress are talking about large investments in child care and preschool. Families have long struggled with the cost of child care....
by Jennifer Hilgendorf | Mar 11, 2021 | Best Practices, Food Program, WEESSN
by JoAnn Hayden, Food Program Area Coordinator, WEESSN Program Coach, and Amanda Bee, Farm to Early Care and Education Coordinator, The Parenting Place. It has been a long-standing dream for Farm to Early Care and Education to explore ways for child care providers to...
by Dr. Toshiba Adams | Feb 18, 2021 | Best Practices, Spotlight, Training
As we approached Black History Month, I took a moment to reflect on my early schooling experiences. As a Black child who attended predominantly White k-12 schools, I am unable to recall any school-wide celebrations of Black history. What I do recall is being taught...
by Tanya Johnson | Feb 15, 2021 | Best Practices, Training
Social Justice: Start Early, Start Now More than half of the 74 million children in the United States are children of color, and they are served by learning systems that are gravely inequitable (Haywoode, 2020). Because of this inequity, social justice must be...
