EXCERPT FROM: Milwaukee Courier
By Courier Staff
Senator Lena C. Taylor (D) Milwaukee) this week announced a child care summit to take place Saturday, February 27th in Milwaukee. The summit will offer advice ranging from how to open a daycare center to questions about receiving micro-loans. In addition, information about Wisconsin Act 76, the recent changes to the Wisconsin Shares Program, will be shared and discussed.
EXCERPT FROM: Journal Sentinel
By Sharif Durhams
Journal Sentinel reporter Raquel Rutledge, whose stories exposed fraud and lawbreaking within Wisconsin's child-care subsidy program, has won a George Polk Award, one of journalism's highest honors.
EXCERPT FROM: Journal Sentinel
By Raquel Rutledge
Someone picked up the phone and called.
That's how the Journal Sentinel's ongoing "Cashing in on Kids" investigation got started.
EXCERPT FROM: Journal Sentinel
By John Diedrich
A Milwaukee man who collected more than $700,000 from the state's taxpayer-subsidized child care program has agreed to plead guilty to filing false reports in bankruptcy court, according to federal documents filed Wednesday.
EXCERPT FROM: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
By Raquel Rutledge
State auditors identified a string of regulatory gaps in Wisconsin's child-care program, including more than 600 sites with overdue inspections and at least 200 criminal background checks that hadn't been done.
EXCERPT FROM: Journal Sentinel
By John Diedrich
Child-care providers across the nation would be subjected to comprehensive background examinations, including an FBI fingerprint check, under federal legislation pending in the U.S. House and expected in the Senate next week.
EXCERPT FROM: Journal Sentinel
By Raquel Rutledge
Two Milwaukee child-care providers who reaped more than $5 million from the troubled Wisconsin Shares program in recent years were charged Thursday with bilking the taxpayer-financed program out of more than $1 million.
EXCERPT FROM: WKOW 27
By Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The state suspended payments to 36 child care providers in October based on suspicions of fraud.
EXCERPT FROM: Wisconsin State Journal
By Jason Stein
State officials looking for cases of fraud in a child-care subsidy program are investigating 15 providers getting paid by the state to watch school-age children nearly full time, saying they'll likely suspend payments to at least one of the centers as a result.
EXCERPT FROM: Journal Sentinel
By Raquel Rutledge
Madison - Lawmakers unanimously approved a wide-reaching bill Thursday aimed at curbing fraud and keeping criminals out of the state's troubled taxpayer-supported child-care program.