Apr 11, 2025
EVERY CHILD LEFT BEHIND Did you file your tax return yet for 2024? Eight out of ten of us will have done so by the time you read this email. But what are you getting for taxes Washington is collecting? When the tax year started on January 2024, parents of...
Apr 8, 2025
LOCAL TEACHER’S POWERFUL PLEA TO SAVE THE DEPT OF ED Dismantling the Department of Education has real consequences for students with disabilities. But don’t just take our word for it. Listen to Nicole Wyglendowski, a K-2 special education teacher, who...
Mar 28, 2025
A LITTLE RED LIGHT Nora Bongiovanni was born nine weeks early and spent the first 14 weeks of her life in the NICU. Nora’s family live in Chester County, but her mom, Grace, chose to work for a New Jersey company because Jersey provides paid family...
Mar 21, 2025
BUILDING SAFER COMMUNITIES & BRIGHTER FUTURES Do children as young as ten years old end up shackled and in prison? In PA, yes, they do. Imagine seeing a 10-year-old lying on a bare floor in shackles. State Rep. Rick Krajewski from Philadelphia did. At a...
Mar 14, 2025
A Half-Billion Dollar Swindle in Delco Harms Children After the private equity owners of the Crozer Medical system in Delaware County extracted more than $500,000,000 from the system over the past nine years, it declared bankruptcy and the whole hospital...
Mar 10, 2025
On Tuesday, May 20, 2025 Children First will be honoring Governor Josh Shapiro at our annual Celebration of the Champion for Children, and we are also proud to be celebrating our 45th Anniversary! We are choosing to honor Governor Shapiro on this special...
