Wisconsin’s Department of Children and Families Secretary Jeff Pertl paid a visit to Eau Claire on Wednesday.
Pertl made an appearance at the Eau Claire Children’s Museum where he took part in a discussion with child care providers about the expectation of cuts to Gov. Tony Evers’ proposed state budget. An estimated 480-million dollars is being pulled out of the Child Care Counts program by the Republican-led Joint Committee on Finance. Pertl says the investments made in public education and vouchers for private schools compared to child care subsidies for working families of children ages zero to five are simply not even.
