Meet Jalen and his mother Avril. Jalen was poisoned by lead at the age of 12. It's shameful that forty years after lead-based paint was banished from store shelves, lead's toxic legacy lives on poisoning thousands of children, like Jalen, in Philadelphia....
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Get ready to lose your lunch…November 22, 2019
Get ready to lose your lunch It’s the one-two punch that could deprive impoverished children their free school lunch. As we prepare for Thanksgiving, we hope you’ll take a moment and add your name to this letter. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...
Get ready to lose your lunch…November 22, 2019
Coming together to keep schools from coming apart–November 15, 2019
Coming Together to Keep Schools from Falling Apart Calling all advocates: Starting now – you have two opportunities to support Pennsylvania’s public schools! First, on Monday, November 18, the House Education Committee is scheduled to vote...
Public policies should do no harm. This one fails–November 8, 2019
Policy Should Never Put a Child's Health at Risk The Trump administration has proposed restricting broad-based categorical eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), that could mean catastrophic outcomes for an estimated 2 million...
Public policies should do no harm. This one fails–November 8, 2019
5 ways CYBER GHOULS are haunting PA…November 1, 2019
Terrifying truths about cyber charter schools Read on, if you dare, but be warned: The following is entirely true and should upset students, parents, educators, advocates, lawmakers, and beleaguered taxpayers. For this spooky post-Halloween edition of The...
Why are Philly families underwater?–October 25, 2019
Why are Philadelphia families underwater? While Philadelphia’s poverty rate hovers at around 25% (according to the latest census data), even families earning $75,000 are under tremendous pressure and few options. In Philadelphia, a whopping seven out of...
Why are Philly families underwater?–October 25, 2019
Can we tell you about our DREAM?–October 18, 2019
A dream we share, for all children in Pennsylvania An hour before the doors were even open, Parrin, 4, lined up with her family for the 10th annual Give Kids Sight Day, PCCY’s day of free vision care. Little did she know she would soon be...