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Broken Bones, Broken System – May 2, 2025

  IT CAN HAPPEN ANYWHERE – AND IT NEVER SHOULD Every child should be safe from harm, but there is a special obligation to kids who are in the child welfare system because they were abused or neglected. It’s hard to forget the case, more than a decade ago,...

Don’t Stop Head Start – Apr 18, 2025

  THROWING BABY OUT WITH THE BATH WATER Of all of the cost-cutting measures floated or implemented by the new administration, early learning for kids living in poverty wasn’t on the Bingo card for most of us. But the Heritage Foundation has long had its sights...

Your Taxes Should Pay Off for Kids – 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...

Stop the devastation of special education – Apr 4, 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...

Giving baby monitors a new meaning – 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...

Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right – 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...