Gov. Walker touts pre-schools in Hudson stop
April 26, 2012 at 6:33 am in Hudson Star-Observer
Gov. Scott Walker stopped in Hudson Thursday morning and read to a group of pre-kindgarten students at KinderCare, 2600 Center Dr. His purpose was to highlight his YoungStar and Early Literacy initiatives; KinderCare is considered a five-star top of the list in the state’s reimbursement program. Continue Reading
Oh dear :-/
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Also for Wisconsin’s 2011-13 Biennial Budget, Governor Walker proposed a $106 million cut in state funding for the Wisconsin Shares budget, which is the state funding source from which private childcare businesses such as KinderCare may apply for payment (see, Wisconsin Council on Children & Families, “Comparative Analysis of 2011-13 Biennial Budget Bill”, 7/6/11, at http://www.wisconsinbudgetproject.org/budget_comparative_analysis_2011-13.pdf).
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good grief, care to twist the truth by citing a PROPOSED budget…how about what actually was passed?
From page 17 of your source:
“Joint Finance: Approved the Governor’s budget for WI Shares, with several modifications: Adding $16 million over the biennium to WI Shares, bringing the total to $297.7 million in FY’12 and $297.3 million in FY’13. Establishing lower estimates of the cost to continue Shares ($304.7 million in FY’12 and $309.5 million in FY’13); therefore reducing cost savings needed. Adjusting estimates for needed cost savings: o Program integrity measures: -$2.7 million in both years o Savings from the tiered reimbursement system: -$3.5 million in year one, and -$5.9 in year two (much lower than earlier estimates) o Other cost saving measures in basic program requirements (income eligibility, copays, waiting lists, rate changes): -$0.8 million in year one, and -$3.6 million in year two. Because the estimated ongoing cost of Shares dropped, the cost savings in Shares also dropped (by $25 million). Depending on the future trends in expenditures, it is possible that basic WI Shares program requirements will not need to be changed, or will need only minor adjustments. The Committee passed provisions that would make W-2 participant s exempt from waiting lists, and require DCF to submit a report to the Committee with a plan for implementing cost saving measures. Legislature: No change (same as Joint Finance) Governor/Act 32 Partial veto narrows fingerprinting requirement for providers.”
And Walker was speaking about changes to the Young Star program (page 19 of your source), which would give 5-star programs, like KinderCare, up to a 10% increase in reimbursement. Seems like a good thing: reward good programs, penalize programs not meeting standards.
Which program would you send your kid to, given a choice? Shouldn’t ALL kids have access to 5-star programs, since I doubt in the name of tolerance and diversity you’d choose a 1-star program. Why encourage crappy programs with “free” subsidies?
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g.s.: FYI, the first part of my comment, regarding the adopted cuts to early childhood education funding, has now been “awaiting moderation” at this site for more than 60 hours. Here are the facts the Hudson Star Observer has not yet allowed posting:
For Wisconsin’s 2011-13 Biennial Budget, Governor Walker proposed, and Republican legislative majorities approved, a ten percent cut (-10%) in state funding for four-year-old kindergarten programs at Wisconsin’s public schools, as well as a ten-percent cut (-10%) in state funding for Head Start programs (see, Wisconsin Council on Children & Families, “Falling Support for Schools Threatens Wisconsin’s Economic Future”, 1/9/12; and “Comparative Analysis of 2011-13 Biennial Budget Bill”, 7/6/11, at p. 18).
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Governor Walker, who the facts show proposed reducing state funding for both public and private early childhood education programs, speaks in this video clip about the importance of providing early childhood education programs to the state’s long-term good–his actions and words seem a bit inconsistent, at best.
FYI, studies comparing the relative efficacy of Head Start and private childcare programs have found that expanding Head Start to children who are currently not eligible has beneficial effects on cognitive achievement, because even children from relatively high quality home environments spend significant amounts of time in low quality child care; but for the typical subsidy-eligible population, child care subsidies have small positive effects on cognitive skills by inducing families to move children from low quality home environments to relatively higher quality child care environments. For example, see, “Evaluating the Effects of Child Care Policies on Children’s Cognitive Development and Maternal Labor Supply”, November 2011, D. Griffin, Dept. of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, at http://economics.sas.upenn.edu/~griffena/Griffen%20JMP.pdf.
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Governor Walker PROPOSED a budget level, the legislature changed it. Seems to me that is a normal course of state budgeting.
I get really annoyed to read a comment, go to the link, and find those comment sentences have been lifted from the link without the quotation marks one would assume would be ethically used. But whatever…
Quickly scanning your link reveals this is a modelling study, which always raises my antenna because it relies on the impartiality and integrity of the researcher using input data that may shape the outcome.
I’m not arguing Head Start/ early childhood programs not be funded. And in the conclusions, your linked article states this: “Child care subsidy policy parameters do have an important role in increasing cognitive achievement but the effect does not come through changing the child care quality of subsidy recipients but rather through which children participate in child care. A generous child care subsidy program targeted to very poor households (less than $10,000 annual income) both increases children’s cognitive achievement scores and increases labor force participation of mothers. For the some families, there are no trade-offs between improving cognitive skills and increasing labor force participation.”
The just passed state budget rewards good programs while keeping W2 families off waiting lists. Is that all thats needed? Probably not. So how are you going to pay for it? Good paying jobs go a long way to lift families out of poverty. A good economy can add $$ to the state treasury to expand programs. Maybe rather than give money to the Sierra Club to stop the St Croix Bridge, the money would have been better used for a “scholarship” program for some low-income kid to go to a 5-star pre-K program.
If you want government to pay for everything, why not just turn the kids over after they are weaned and potty trained? (oh don’t go crazy, that’s sarcasm because it seems libs tend to think “the government” does things soooo much better and cheaper and fair…and we only have E. German and USSR history to look at in that regard.)
With your concern, how many low-income kids have you helped financed for pre-K?
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Wait a minute. Walker can read?!?
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Yes – and he can even do it without a teleprompter.
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Here’s something you all should know.
Scott Walker was found guilty of violating Marquette University’s student government campaign rules shortly before he quit.
Violating campaign laws – these are the same charges that several of his former associates are now facing!
http://www.bluecheddar.net/?p=14899
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Didn’t you go learn about women’s rights, AA? Must have been a short program if it started at 10 am and you’re already posting…or didn’t you go (are you a liar since you said you were going?))
Old allegations about Walker is the best you can do? Why not go back to when he was 4 and lied about eating nasty vegetables. How pitiful….and what does that have to do with his performance as governor?
It seems one topic is holding a couple of my posts, so excuse me for going OT. Do you believe in women’s rights as equal-opportunity or equal-rights? I ask, because the actual first mention of “feminist” in a SCOUS opinion was written by Justice Ginsberg in the recent Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Maryland. Now I realize you aren’t interested in learning, but Althouse has an interesting post on the opinion. (And btw, Althouse is left of center on socail issues, and more libertarian on laws…likely due to her US Constitution knowldege. She draws conservative commenters because she wants discourse, and has little tolerance for MOBY name calling.)
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oops…find it here:
althouse.blogspot.com/2012/04/for-first-time-supreme-court-opinion.html
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“Scott Walker was found guilty of violating Marquette University’s student government campaign rules shortly before he quit.”
Sorry, but it’s NOT an allegation, it’s a FACT. What does it have to do with Walker, the man, today? It’s about character…
Do YOU believe a woman should be paid 74 cents for every dollar a man makes in the EXACT SAME position?
Oh that’s right – you could argue that money is more important for men…
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Alice, it’s well-known that based on experience, knowledge, and time on the job that women and men are paid equally. That’s the law. Note that all men in the same job aren’t paid the same wage – once again the pay is based on experience, knowledge, and time on the job.
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Hey carbon, here’s one for you.
I’ve had jobs where I was paid on the same pay scale as guys (based on longevity since every employee had to meet fed regs we were all equally qualified), but made more gross income than the guys.
How? I did all the little crap jobs the guys wouldn’t do. Which is why I’m a feminist in the “equal opportunity” camp. My initiative determines my outcome.
I’ve been slapped in the face under “equal-treatment”, and actually quit a job because of the way the company execs treated employees (but they treated males/females equally crappy and overcame the revolving door employee problem by paying more to start. It was an interesting business model.) I can walk away from perceived mistreatment, and fed law covers the rest.
And women? Sometimes the least concerned about equal-treatment. When I was doing OTR driving I had to pick up a load at a concrete plant in SE MI. Needed to use the restroom, so I asked the women in the shipping office where I’d find the restroom. Was told they didn’t have one. I asked, “What do you use when you need to go?” Was told, “we have our own, but drivers can’t use it.” I asked where drivers are supposed to go. The plant’s MEN’s restroom. I remember asking the lady, “Are you serious?” She just shrugged and walked away. Since there wasn’t a bush or tree or corner to hide behind in the entire shipping area I eventually HAD to use the men’s room….but that’s another quirky story.
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Ya know AA, copying a sentance from a blog with the subtitle, “a progressive blog in Wisconsin “, which the first sentance questions if anyone has verified the Eagle Scout status of Walker, and doesn’t link to verifiable sources is nothing but toilet paper to me.
What was interesting in my search for details, was finding progressive/dem blogs who couldn’t even agree on the YEAR your latest Walker-driven fit occured at Marquette U.
This is from the Marquette Tribune, the student paper, about Walker’s sin:
“In recent months, attention has been turned back to the 1988 Marquette Student Government election. In that year, then Marquette junior and current Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker lost in a landslide election after illegally campaigning door-to-door and slinging mud at his opponent…”
I couldn’t find anything that quoted the “slinging mud” comments to see what comprised those comments. You obviously can read minds and hearts and determined based on this incident Walker’s character is so horrible he’s not fit to hold office.
I don’t reach that conclusion. Too little information for one thing. It happened 33 years ago. Are you the same person, with the identical values you were in 1988? I’m not. I made mistakes, learned from them, definately changed my values which impacted my chracter. I’m willing to put this incident into the “young and dumb” file bin I keep in my mind, (that bin is filled with stories of our former HS/college part-timers and the incredible stupid things they said/did.)
(marquettetribune.org/2011/03/10/news/candidates-jmc1-tw2-tdz3-as-musg-elections-near-candidates-promote-clean-campaigns/)
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Hey Alice, do you have a problem with this?
Women who work for Mayor Tom Barrett’s (democrat governor candidate) office get paid on average $17,000 less than the average male working in the mayor’s office.
http://wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=268541
Oh that’s right – you could argue that money is more important for men when a democrat is paying them…
Of course you don’t you hypocrite!
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Hey – thanks for reading.
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TAKE BACK WOMENS SUFFERAGE!!!!
DO IT FOR THE WOMEN!!!
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