The Results Are In - You Voted for Kids! You made it happen. The election results are in, and Pennsylvania children and youth are the winners. Lines were long but, thankfully, you waited your turn and cast your ballot for candidates who understand that, after a...
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Vote for Child Care – Nov 4, 2022
Vote Like Child Care Matters Because It Really Does We couldn’t say it better than Marissa Christie, President & CEO of the United Way of Bucks County. Here is her recently published commentary in the Bucks County Courier Times on why child care is a...
Health crisis wrapped in a child care crisis – Oct 14, 2022
Where is the Light at the End of the Tunnel? Shocking news this week that we’re not taking care of the ones who care for our children, according to the Yale Child Study Center. The child care crisis is even worse than we imagined. On top of being appallingly...
Are Your Candidates on the Record? – Oct 7, 2022
Getting Candidates on the Record Remember when Clint Eastwood berated an empty chair in the 2012 GOP National Convention? Well, we’re starting to understand his frustration because we’ve had 21 empty chairs at the Child Care Voters Candidate Conversations...
Have We Recovered from the Pandemic? – Sep 23, 2022
DELCO & MONTCO Kids Not Out of the COVID Woods Yet "I wasn’t dealing with certain [mental health] things correctly," said Tanveer Kaur, a Senior at Upper Darby High School. "I needed to talk to it out with someone who wasn’t family and was a trusted adult...
Where Have All the Teachers Gone? – Sep 9, 2022
The Teacher Shortage is Not Temporary Schools are back in session. Eager students clamor as they file into classrooms, some for the first time in two years. Yet far too many students won't be greeted with smiles and words of encouragement from their teachers...
Shout Out to Those Working for Kids! – Sep 2, 2022
The Education Law Center's updated "Back-to-School" guide is an incredible tool to advocate and serve PA's public school students and families. Check it out here. Math and reading scores for America’s 9-year-olds fell dramatically during the first two years of...
Cut Through the Elections Jargon – Aug 26, 2022
Are Your Candidates on the Side of Kids? It’s a tragedy for our democracy that candidates are spending more time spreading poll-tested jargon than being clear with voters about where they stand on a range of issues. Twitter storms, photo ops, and well-crafted...
A Win for Kids! – Jul 29, 2022
The Fundamentals of Literacy...and Political Change As far right forces try to divide our communities by instigating battles over what books can be in libraries and how our teachers teach history, we united forces to make sure our kids can actually read. ...
Courage, healing, hope – Jul 22, 2022
Without Hope, How do They Have Courage? Gun shootings happen with such frequency in our schools, malls, and neighborhoods that we risk becoming numb to the horror. With such pervasive violence in our culture, how do we give our children hope and the tools to be...