Tomorrow's Leaders Make their Case to Today's Lawmakers The yellow school bus pulled up to the office of state Representative Jenn O’Mara and a gaggle of pre-k students made their way inside with excited questions and contagious giggles. They listened as...
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Empowering Youth Voices for Education – Apr 1, 2022
Tomorrow's Leaders Make their Case to Today's Lawmakers "Our text books are older than the students using them." The sad state of textbooks was raised by Upper Darby student Tanveer K. in a meeting with House Democratic Leader Joanna McClinton this week at the...
REPORT: Getting Back to Business: Non-Traditional Hour Child Care – Mar 2022
The research is clear that there is a strong need for non-traditional hour child care. Pennsylvania child care regulations define non-traditional hour child care as care provided to children whose parent/caretaker work on Saturday, Sunday, or between the hours of 6 PM...
Business runs on child care – Mar 25, 2022
Business and Families Call for Greater Child Care Investments "We have a hard time hiring and keeping workers because of the lack of child care flexibility," said Blythe Pruitt of Advanced Industrial Solutions (AIS), a skilled trade labor contracting company...
Get Your Ticket for Philly’s Hottest Event – Mar 18, 2022
Councilmember David Oh wants to repeal the Philly soda tax and deny 4,000 children quality pre-k. If you're a Philly parent, let him know that a few cents on a soda means so much more for kids! Sad but true observation by a 10-year-old girl talking about the...
Is the invasion of Ukraine our wake-up call? – Feb 25, 2022
The Fate of Democracy Is In Our Hands The stories and images coming out of Ukraine are horrifying. Our hearts are breaking for the Ukrainian people as they face death and destruction at the hands of Russian invaders in an unfounded military attack that...
Corporate America Joins the Child Care Cause – Feb 18, 2022
Child Care Builds Bridges for Families and Politicians They say politics makes strange bedfellows, and the same can be said for child care. Parents, government, business, social conservatives, and liberal advocates all agree that child care is a priority for...
A Stormy School Choice Week – Jan 28, 2022
We Can Do Better if We Really Want Education Choice It’s been a stormy week, to say the least. Not only are we all bracing for the nor'easter, this week’s news was flooded with a torrent of new research exposing failure, waste, and potential fraud in...
Will They, or Won’t They? – Dec 11, 2021
Enough Drama for a Telenovela As far as sagas go, there hasn’t been this much “Will they, or won’t they?” since the storied, weekly plotline Rachel and Ross of Friends. If you didn’t catch the wildly popular sitcom, just imagine waiting nine years for the...
Wow! Build Back Better! – Nov 19, 2021
Historic and Life Changing More than four million Pennsylvania children in our state alone will live better lives with Build Back Better. This historic legislation that passed the U.S. House this morning will help kids throughout the Commonwealth - children in...