We Witnessed History in the Making In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens artfully portrays the stark disparity between the haves and the have-nots. Today’s opening remarks in the Fair Funding Lawsuit could have been written by Dickens himself. The State...
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Focus Your Outrage – Nov 5, 2021
Masking Over Exploding Cyber Charter Costs School board elections are finalized, and first-time school board members will be sworn in over the next several weeks. Many candidates ran on platforms that sadly divide our communities (masking, racial equity,...
Decades later, lead paint still poisons – Oct 29, 2021
Three-Pronged Approach to Prevent Lead Poisoning Harriet Okatch, assistant professor of public health at Franklin and Marshall College and our partner in the Lead-Free Promise Project coalition, was published in The Philadelphia Inquirer yesterday. In the...
Speech: PA Schools Work and Ed Funding – Oct 27, 2021
Speech Presented at PASW Press Conference in Harrisburg October 27, 2021 Tomea Sippio-Smith, K-12 Policy Director Children First Good morning. My name is Tomea Sippio-Smith. I am the K-12 Education Policy Director at Children First, formerly known as Public Citizens...
Don’t Skip School – School Board Elections that Is! – Oct 22, 2021
Vote Like Kids' Lives Depend on It 'Cause They Do Steve Bannon might be missing from the witness stand in Congress, but he is omnipresent at the ballot box, especially in this November’s school board elections. This is no surprise because last May he explained...
Comments to Dept of Ed on Charter School Regulations – Oct 19, 2021
Comments on Proposed Rulemaking Department of Education 22 PA CODE CH 713 Charter Schools and Cyber Charter Schools - #6-349 DOWNLOAD PDF Children First (formerly PCCY) works to improve the lives of our region’s children by developing initiatives and advocating for...
The Kids Are Not Alright – Oct 15, 2021
Save Our Children, Literally Kids are contracting COVID and, in rare and terrible cases, they are dying. So far, nearly a quarter of a million children in Pennsylvania have tested positive and are dealing with the long-term effects just like adults....
The Kids Are Not Alright – Oct 15, 2021
The American Experience – Oct 8, 2021
The American Experience – Oct 8, 2021
The American Experience Monday’s federal holiday, whether you mark it as Indigenous Peoples' Day or not, is a day to reflect on immigration. For some, it’s a day of mourning as newcomers invaded native lands. For others, it celebrates the American narrative...