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...
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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...
Removing the danger, not the child
Asking How to Keep Families Together What if we could keep more children safely in their homes by asking a couple of questions? A lot of good. Kids and teens who are abused or neglected must be protected but keeping families whole with support is a better...
We couldn’t say it better…
State Budget Must Address the Child Care Crisis While SEPTA and K-12 education are dominating the headlines during the state budget impasse, families continue to face child care challenges. State Rep. Gina Curry reminded us of that in a recent commentary in...
A Better Deal for Kids
CYBER CHARTER REFORM IS NO GAME Today’s state budget negotiations feel like a game of UNO – find a match, skip, reverse, lose a turn. It’s not a fun game for the schools and vital programs that have been dealt a financially losing hand with the budget delay....
Two Weeks and Counting… – Aug 8, 2025
Students Going Back to School But PA Senate Still Stalling State Budget Negotiations With 447,330 PA students returning to classrooms in just two weeks, education advocates demand that the Senate GOP fulfill their constitutional obligation to adequately fund...