Wisconsin preschoolers are five times likelier to be expelled than students in K-12 schools. Providers and advocates are working to lower the risk.
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Wisconsin preschoolers are 5 times more likely to be expelled than K-12 students. Here’s why.
Child care centers often replace children whose behavioral struggles are linked to shifts in routine or disabilities.
Posted inEducation, Health & Welfare
Teachers’ mental health is linked to preschool expulsions. Here’s why.
The pandemic created unprecedented challenges for Wisconsin’s early childhood teachers, and it’s taking a toll on their mental health.
Posted inHealth & Welfare
Can’t find child care for your infant in Wisconsin? You’re not alone. Industry experts break down why it’s so difficult.
In Outagamie County, there are over 1,200 children younger than 2 on regulated child care waitlists.
Posted inHealth & Welfare
Complaints surge at short-staffed Wisconsin senior living facilities. Residents go without medication and basic care
The staffing shortage has turned into a crisis around northeast Wisconsin, leading to dangerous conditions at some nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
Posted inHealth & Welfare
Wisconsin foster children often need mental health care to thrive. Why is it hard to help them?
Removed from home, deeply traumatized, foster children often need counseling. But even with activist foster parents, it can be hard to get.
Posted inEconomy
Rising cost of living in northeast Wisconsin has many working families treading waterÂ
A dearth of affordable housing and the cost and availability of child care remain barriers to opportunity for many working families in the northeast region
Posted inEducation
One in 5 could have dyslexia, but Wisconsin students, parents feel school support falls short
Often, people assume that dyslexia is just mixing up letters such as “b” and “d.” It can be that for some people, but that’s not the only symptom.
Posted inEconomy, Education
Should Wisconsin fund child care like it does roads? Here are some solutions to the child care crisis
Industry experts and child care providers say effectively addressing needs will require the efforts of government, employers and families.
Posted inEconomy, Education
It takes a village: How collaboration helped a small northern Wisconsin city add crucial child care
Langlade County, where Antigo is located, is a child care desert: an area either without child care or where there’s fewer than one slot per three children.
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Wisconsin families matter. Here’s how 6 newsrooms, 2 community foundations and Microsoft aim to help
Microsoft’s NEW News Lab is working to spotlight Wisconsin family struggles
Posted inHealth & Welfare
Six-week waits, one counselor for eight rural districts: These are some of the hurdles facing youth mental health
Families and schools alike are scrambling to get the mental health care their children need to thrive. Providers are stretched thin. What’s going on?