Download PDF Give Kids a Smile Day set to serve 400 area children and youth. Philadelphia, PA (March 14, 2013) — Upper Darby children can receive free dental care on Thursday, March 28, when a regional, non-profit advocacy organization and nine area dentists...
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PCCY Statement on School Closings: Effective Student Transitions From Closed Schools
Download PDF Philadelphia, PA (February 27, 2013) — Following the Philadelphia School Reform Commission’s (SRC) decisions on school closures Thursday, Public Citizens for Children and Youth today released the following statement calling on the SRC to now...
PCCY Vision Care Guide Puts Affordable Eye Care In Sight
Download PDF Philadelphia, PA (February 27, 2013)-Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY) reissued its updated "Guide to Vision Care Services for Philadelphia's Children & Adolescents" today, offering a valuable resource to families on Medical...
Corbett’s Proposed Education Funding Falls Short, Advocates Say – Philadelphia Inquirer – February 6, 2013
The proposed state budget unveiled by Gov. Corbett would allow for some increase in basic education aid, more funding for early childhood education, and a new block grant program that hinges on privatizing alcohol sales. "My budget works to provide our public schools...
To The Editor: Head Start Gains Downplayed – Philadelphia Inquirer – February 5, 2013
Head Start gains downplayed With good reason, a national study's authors critical of Head Start urged that their findings be considered alongside existing research ("Head Start fails poor children," Jan. 27). That research includes work by the University of...
Governors Budget Proposes $1.8 Billion for Roads But Shortchanges Pennsylvania Children
Download PDF “Status Quo” Budget Means Pennsylvania Children and Economy Won’t Grow (Philadelphia, PA) February 05, 2013 – Governor Tom Corbett today proposed a 2013-14 budget that fails to move Pennsylvania forward by funding growth in student...
A New State Budget Proposal, Another Fight For Education Aid – Public School Notebook – February 4, 2013
Even before making the annual February budget proposal to the legislature for 2013-14, Gov. Tom Corbett said that this year he would not slash funding for basic education. Still, public education advocacy groups like Public Citizens for Children and Youth are...
Houston School Gets $5k for the Arts – Chestnut Hill Patch – January 31, 2013
Houston School students were presented with a $5,000 check by Public Citizens for Children and Youth’s Picasso Project for their arts project “RURAL LANE RECORDS.” The 7th and 8th grade students will create, perform and record original songs onto a CD in Houston’s...
2013 Picasso Project Grants Award Ceremony
Download PDF Picasso Project Grant Awards Ceremony: Fourteen Philadelphia K-12 Public Schools will receive up to $5,000 for Arts Projects WHO: As part of its efforts to keep the arts alive in Philadelphia schools, the Picasso Project, an arts advocacy program of...
New PCCY Executive Director Still Has Education As Top Priority – WHYY Newsworks – January 24, 2013
For the first time in 26 years, the advocacy group Public Citizens for Children and Youth has a new president. Donna Cooper will lead the organization following the retirement of Shelly Yanoff, whose work on health, education, child care and other issues affecting...