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Speech: Fully Fund Public Education – Feb 3, 2022
Speech Presented at Senator Hughes’ Press Conference on Funding Plan at Plymouth Meeting High School February 3, 2022 Tomea Sippio-Smith, K-12 Policy Director Children First PA (Formerly PCCY) Thank you, Senator Hughes for the opportunity to speak this morning and for...
Alarming Trends Show More Children At Risk – Feb 2, 2022
Alarming Trends Show More Children At Risk Child Abuse is Taking More Lives of Children in Philadelphia February 2, 2022 The stated purpose of Pennsylvania’s Child Welfare system is to “protect children from abuse, neglect, and enable children to remain safely in...
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...
PA Leads Nation in Cyber Charter Costs, Not Academic Performance – Jan 27, 2022
PHILADELPHIA (January 27, 2022) — Compared to the 27 other states that permit cyber charters, PA has the most cyber charter students and is spending the most taxpayer money on cyber charters, yet it has the weakest systems to ensure students and taxpayers are getting...
Good Trouble, Necessary Trouble – Jan 21, 2022
Use Your Voice to Shape the Electoral Landscape It's an American tradition to come together to do good. We saw evidence of that in the nationwide volunteering in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday. We see it in 1,000+ people who gave just to Children...
It’s Good News this Time! – Jan 14, 2022
Teachers Asked, Children First Delivered COVID is once again taking a toll on the arts. Stages are going black as performances are being canceled with band members sick or worried their concerts will become super-spreader events. Even the 2022 GRAMMYs, the...
Do You Want Fries with That – Jan 7, 2022
Short Changing Our Kids It’s certainly hard to build consensus on any solution when the parties involved have diametrically opposed views of the problem. Such is the case with the fate of our democracy. Yesterday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi marked the somber...
Naughty or Nice – Dec 23, 2021
Santa is making his list and checking it twice. Children First has some suggestions for Santa about who’s been naughty and who’s been nice. But, as always, there’s room for a Christmas miracle so folks on the naughty list have a few more days to change their...
Can You Put Children First On Your List? – Dec 22, 2021
Can You Put Children First On Your List? The Build Back Better Bill, the largest investment in children ever, is in jeopardy! Despite progress made possible by Children First and hundreds of other advocacy organizations, we must continue to push and push and...