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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...

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...

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...

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.  ...