Amidst a childcare crisis across Wisconsin, public school superintendents don’t want their students open-enrolling to bigger districts with more childcare options available. They want young families to move into town for jobs, build a connection with the school, and stay.
The Lincoln School District serves the Alma Center, Humbird, and Merrillan communities. Voters who live there will see a question on their ballots Nov. 5, asking them to approve a capital referendum to build a childcare center onto the elementary school in Merrillan.
The short answer to how Wisconsin daycares could serve 33,000 more kids? Hire more people to take care of those children. It’s a seemingly obvious answer to a problem that many family advocates in recent years have reached crisis level.
Almost 60% of child care providers across the state have unused capacity—closed classrooms—because of staff shortages. Providers report that if they were able to operate at full capacity, they could serve up to 33,000 more kids.
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Occurring on October 14 this year, Indigenous Peoples' Day is the perfect time to get out into your community to learn and uplift Native voices and culture.
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It’s been half a year since Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Tony Evers approved a bill that would help people get the health care they need in western Wisconsin.
As some surrounding birth centers are shuttering their maternity departments, a rural western Wisconsin hospital in a town of about 5,000 people is growing its women’s health and labor & delivery services.
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