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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...

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...

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...