Aug 22, 2025
STATE BUDGET MUST ADDRESS CHILD CARE CRISIS While SEPTA and K-12 education are dominating the headlines during the state budget impasse, families continue to face child care challenges. State Rep. Gina Curry reminded us of that in a recent commentary in...
Jul 11, 2025
Federal Policy that Harms Children Should be A Non-Starter Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a ban on children living in the U.S. without legal citizenship status from receiving services in essential federally funded health care...
Jun 27, 2025
MAKING PROGRESS ON CHILD CARE It’s about darn time. Parents and child care providers too often get lip service from lawmakers about solving the child care crisis. A roll call vote this week on a child care bill forced Pennsylvania legislators to show where they...
Jun 11, 2025
A Call to Action by the Early Childhood Provider Council Racial Equity Subcommittee The Early Childhood Provider Council’s Racial Equity Subcommittee, supported by Children First, is dedicated to addressing systemic inequities in Pennsylvania’s early childhood...
May 9, 2025
LIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM THROUGH HEAD START The Philadelphia Inquirer published the following commentary written by Mai Miksic, Children First’s Deputy Director of Policy. Join Mai and other Head Start supporters by joining us in Washington, D.C. next...
Apr 18, 2025
THROWING BABY OUT WITH THE BATH WATER Of all of the cost-cutting measures floated or implemented by the new administration, early learning for kids living in poverty wasn’t on the Bingo card for most of us. But the Heritage Foundation has long had its sights...
