IT'S NOT ALL BAD NEWS Not all politics is conflict. For the first time in a REALLY LONG TIME, juvenile justice reform is progressing in Pennsylvania. Bipartisan Movement in Harrisburg State lawmakers from both sides of the aisle put aside partisan differences...
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Guarantees in Life
Parents and Students Deserve Guarantees in the SDP Facilities Plan A Statement by Children First In Philadelphia, providing a world class public education to every student is a daunting challenge due to decades of underfunding that starved our schools of...
ICE & Education Funding, What’s the Connection?
WHERE YOUR TAX DOLLARS ARE GOING From our nation’s capital to small-town PA, taxpayers are footing a hefty bill for the chaos that ICE is creating. Starting tomorrow, the agencies within the Department of Homeland Security will either shut down or work...
Opening Play of the PA State Budget
MAKE THE NUMBERS LINE UP FOR KIDS In many ways, putting together a $53.2 billion state budget is like winning at Rubik’s cube – each twist toward matching patterns must be carefully planned or else you could get trapped in a losing game. Governor Shapiro...
Can you live with this?
When enforcing the law means locking up children, the law must be questioned. Liam Ramos' elementary school principal started to cry when asked about how Liam’s arrest impacted other children. "His friends notice that he's not here," Principal Jason Kuhlman...
Can it be right for the gov’t to break up families?
Government-Sanctioned Family Separation Goes Beyond Immigration Enforcement In these chaotic times when we are awash in videos documenting children used as bait in the ICE dragnet or swollen child detention centers filled with orphaned immigrant children, it’s...
Are You Feeling Better?
Dangerous Snowball Effect of Bad Health Policy If national leaders really want to Make America Healthy Again, pushing kids off health insurance is not the way to go. In Pennsylvania today, more than 153,000 children do not have health insurance, the highest in...
True or False
Here Are the Facts about Child Care Because a YouTuber posted on social media that he wasn’t allowed in secure child care centers in Minnesota, he claimed fraud. The President reacted to the post and – without any evidence – ordered an immediate freeze of $10...
Another Year for Kids
Congratulations! You're already ahead on your New Year's Resolutions by reading this email. Looking forward to another year of working together for equitable access to high-quality early education, sound health care, effective public schools, and dependency...
Wishing You a Happy Holiday!
w Have you ever left your job to care for your kid or were forced to return to work sooner than you wanted after having a baby? If so, share your stories with us to get help get paid family & medical leave in passed in PA! Click here. American Academy of...