Nov 13, 2021
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...
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,...
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...
Oct 28, 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...
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...
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...
