Families Spoke Up for Themselves on Tuesday While Democrats and Republicans are in their post-election huddles, debating what the election results mean to future campaign strategies, Children First has some words of wisdom: Families don’t want to be under...
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This Will Scare You
Sticks and Stones and Names Will Hurt You Troublemaker. Disruptive. Difficult. These labels can follow a child around their whole life with devastating consequences. At a Philadelphia City Council hearing organized by Children First, teenagers shared their...
Keep the Fizz for Philly Kids
Arguments Against Soda Tax are All Flat In response to a 2015 landslide voter referendum in support of a tax on sweetened beverages, the Mayor and City Council passed the levy that pays for more than 5,000 children to attend pre-k, completed upgrades to 48 city...
Getting the rug pulled out from under them
Schools Forced to Make Due with Less Sometimes local reporting gets to the heart of an issue. Evan Brandt, the intrepid Pottstown Mercury journalist, wrote a compelling article on education funding that gets right to the point. Here is an excerpt of his full...
Who Cares for the Caretaker?
When Parents Lead, Families Thrive Young people are facing a mental health crisis but what about parents who are caring heavy mental and emotional loads? In 2024, the U.S. Surgeon General issued the advisory Parents Under Pressure, highlighting that parents are...
Was it ever about Tylenol?
The Autism-Tylenol Link is Hard to Swallow The Presidential uproar about Tylenol is all growl and no bite. Think about it. Finally, America's top dog puts the cause of autism front and center and, instead of solutions, advances baseless claims that offers the...
Help Is Not On The Way – Let’s Fix That
Help is Not on the Way - Let's Fix That Imagine a dentist telling a child they won’t treat a cavity until several of the kid’s teeth have fallen out. It would be absurd. Doctors treat ailments without hesitation – unless, sadly, a child’s ailment is mental stress or...
Waving the White Flag
WAVING THE WHITE FLAG Earlier this week, the Trump Administration signaled its new purpose for the only federal agency focused on children, the Office of Children and Families. Their revised vision is framed as "…embracing the fundamental principle that the best...
The Nation’s Report Card
WHY ARE SO MANY STUDENTS FAILING MATH AND SCIENCE ASSESSMENTS? It's beyond depressing that two thirds of American high school seniors cannot do high school level math or science and a majority struggle with high school level English skills. Also depressing is...
Looming threats to education
HANGING BY A THREAD "I returned last year as a librarian to reopen five elementary school libraries, all of which were closed and basically turned into offices and other uses, and the students were not using the resources that were there. Then we got adequacy...