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,...
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...
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...
Apr 11, 2025
Philadelphia’s Child Welfare System Is Failing Children — It Must Be Reformed Now (April 11, 2025) Children First is heartbroken for the children and families failed by Philadelphia’s child welfare system, as revealed in this week’s Philadelphia Inquirer series on the...
Apr 8, 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...
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...
