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Your Vote Decides – Nov 1, 2024

  ELECTIONS MATTER  Only four more days until the frenzy of the campaign season comes to an end, especially in PA where the presidential candidates and their high-profile surrogates have been going nonstop to get our votes. We’ll all breathe a sigh of...

Feed their Bodies to Fuel their Minds – Oct 18, 2024

  ENDING CHILD HUNGER, ONE SCHOOL LUNCH AT A TIME  It’s National School Lunch Week and he’s what Ryan Prater, Director of Public Policy at Feeding Pennsylvania has to say about it. Lunch. It was always the first thing I looked for when I got my...

When cell phones are like cigarettes – Sep 27, 2024

  The Anxious Generation Needs Phone-Free Classrooms Four out of ten Pennsylvania children and teens report feeling depressed, anxious, or stressed. A popular new book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental...

Testimony: School District of Philadelphia – CTE in Philly Schools

A rigorous study of Philadelphia CTE high school students, 70% of whom are economically disadvantaged and 85% BIPOC, found that these students were 30% more likely to graduate on-time than students attending comprehensive/neighborhood high schools that shared nearly...

Testimony: Philadelphia School Board on School Funding

Philadelphia School Board Testimony Priyanka Reyes-Kaura, K12 Policy Director, Children First August 22, 2024 My name is Priyanka Reyes-Kaura and I work at Children First as the K-12 Education Policy Director. Children First is one of the advocacy organizations in the...

Using our savings to save our children – Aug 16, 2024

  USING SAVINGS FOR THE MOST CRITICAL NEED: EDUCATION Pennsylvania had $13.6 billion in reserves when lawmakers passed the FY25 budget. After the budget, these reserves will drop to $10.3 billion. That’s because we drew down $3.3 billion from one of our...