A horror at $1000 a day In an unlicensed facility in Berks County, women and children are being unlawfully imprisoned under dangerous and abusive conditions. Last year, a guard was arrested for raping a 19-year-old mother seven times. One rape was witnessed by an...
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Bypassing Art Failure–March 11, 2016
Bypassing Art Failure The research is clear and it likely matches your gut feeling on the matter: Art and music are vital to development, boosting critical thinking, empathy and tolerance. So is this what we’re delivering in our schools? For Philadelphia’s 130,000...
Take action on lead TONIGHT–March 6, 2016
Chipping away at lead poisoning What’s the difference between the way government handled childhood lead poisoning in Flint, Michigan and Philadelphia? In Flint, children were poisoned by the direct actions of state government. In Philadelphia, local government has a...
Chipping away at lead poisoning–March 4, 2016
Kudos: Mayor Kenney Delivers on 2 Promises to PCCY As a mayoral candidate, Jim Kenney was an early signer of Pledge for Philadelphia’s Children, a PCCY led effort backed by 26 of the most respected youth-serving organizations in the city. As Mayor, he wasted little...
A Cure for Overmedicating Kids–February 26, 2016
A Cure for Overmedicating Kids 43% of PA children in foster care prescribed psychiatric drugs--more than 3X the rate of other low income children on Medicaid Too often, kids demonstrating behavioral issues because of a traumatic experience just get what’s easy or...
Supreme Court Hamstrings Districts–February 19, 2016
Move over Budget Impasse: Supreme Court hamstrings school districts Ruling makes fiscally responsible budget impossible especially in Southeast PA The aftershocks of this week’s stunning decision on the Philadelphia SRC could very well be felt in school districts...
A Letter to the Philadelphia School Reform Commission on New Charter Schools
On Tuesday night, the SRC approved three new charter schools for Philadelphia. One group, comprised of professors from Philadelphia-area institutions, wrote the following letter in response to the decision. Carolyn T. Adams, a co-author of the letter, testified at...
Statement on SRC Court Ruling
Statement by Donna Cooper, Executive Director of PCCY, Regarding the State Supreme Court ruling on the Philadelphia SRC: The State Supreme Court’s decision regarding the Philadelphia School Reform Commission morphs the powers of SRC in ways that makes them more...
Report card for grown-ups–February 4, 2016
Report Card for Grown-Ups: C For school funding, Harrisburg got a C, underperforming Ohio and New York. The cohort was walloped by keener New Jersey who earned the only A. The Network for Public Education graded every state on 6 criteria regarding education, including...
A lift so heavy they can not budge-it?–February 12, 2016
Get the lead out Did you know more kids in Philadelphia are affected by lead contamination than in Flint, Michigan? The city of Flint faces a major public health crisis due to the city’s contaminated water supply, but elevated blood lead levels are more widespread...