There is no doubt that high-quality early childhood education (ECE) is a win for everyone – children, parents, employers, and our economy. Yet this critical sector is on the brink of a breakdown. To understand the depth of the stress on the child care sector,...
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The child care system is broken – Dec 16, 2022
Pushing Kids to the Front We can't stop thinking about a young woman we met recently who worked at Burger King for years. She was excited to finally get hired for a job at Penn in a position that paid much more and offered a promising career. The problem is...
A Toilet on the State Capitol Steps?! – Dec 9, 2022
Prevent Our Kids' Futures from Going Down the Drain At least once a week, people ask us the same question: why did you put a toilet on the Capitol steps? After years of using charts and graphs to prove that students in Pennsylvania were harmed by the state’s...
Your Hard Work Paid Off for Kids! – Nov 11, 2022
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...
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...