The Big Thing: A Summit to Change Young Lives Imagine being a kid today. They’re facing challenges that even some grown-ups can’t handle: violence, addiction, cyber bullying, school closures, fall-out from the pandemic, college debt, political division, racial...
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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...
TESTIMONY: GPEC Testimony to Philadelphia Board of Education – Sep 22, 2022
The Greater Philadelphia Extracurricular Collaborative (GPEC) is a coalition of out-of-school time (OST) providers and interested funders in Philadelphia and its surrounding counties. Together with Children First, GPEC has been encouraging the School District of...
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...
What’s all the Ruckus in Bucks County? – Aug 19, 2022
Is This Really How We Can Protect Children? There’s been a lot of ruckus lately at school board meetings in Bucks County where some really loud voices are crying foul over certain library books, art, and teachers who promote acceptance. It’s not like other...
Charter Reform Shouldn’t Take a Vacation – Aug 5, 2022
A Bipartisan Call to Get Charter Reform Legislation Across the Finish Line [Occasionally we share other voices in the fight for children's rights. Below is a bipartisan opinion piece published in The Mercury newspaper that gets right to "The Point" about...
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...
Have we traded one king for another? – Jul 1, 2022
Our Declaration for Children and Teens Monday is shaping up to be a beautiful day weatherwise for the 4th of July. It’s the day we celebrate ending the tyranny of the Crown of England that extracted taxes from his subjects in the new land while refusing to...