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...
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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...
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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...
Reversing the Summer Slide – Aug 1, 2025
SOME GOOD NEWS FOR A CHANGE "Aaliyah is learning so much at her summer program. She has fun, she learns a lot and gets to do things like museums and field trips that I can’t do," said Aaliyah's grandmother, Michelle, who is raising the 10-year-old. Aaliyah is...
Coming Up Aces for Kids – Jul 25, 2025
WHO'S WINNING IN THIS GAME? PA students could hit the jackpot if the players in Harrisburg would agree on how to tax "video-gaming" terminals in bars, fire halls, taverns, and convenience stores. In a rare public display of intramural rivalry, the competition...
What’s the Story in Harrisburg? – July 18, 2025
FUNDING EDUCATION CAN'T TAKE A VACATION In about a month, kids are going to return to the classroom and schools still don't know what resources they'll have. The PA state budget is now three weeks overdue, the 14th time in 20 years that lawmakers couldn't meet...
It’s Just Cruel… – July 11, 2025
Federal Policy that Harms Children Should be A Non-Starter Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a ban on children living in the U.S. without legal citizenship status from receiving services in essential federally funded health care...
No staff = No child care – June 27, 2025
MAKING PROGRESS ON CHILD CARE It’s about darn time. Parents and child care providers too often get lip service from lawmakers about solving the child care crisis. A roll call vote this week on a child care bill forced Pennsylvania legislators to show where they...
When the Punishment is Worse than the Crime – June 20, 2025
JAILING CHILDREN HURTS US ALL America locks up children more than most countries in the world. It’s because our laws – not our kids – are bad. More than 38,000 U.S. children are behind bars for serious offenses but also things as simple as shoplifting, underage...