What Do the Experts Say? The buzz around child care is not dying down, especially in this time when families are trying to manage soaring costs of living. Families need affordable child care, and child care providers need a stable workforce to meet families’...
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An About-Face on Child Care “The United States can't take care of day care. That has to be up to a state. It's not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. They can do it on a state basis.” President Trump...
Is PHL Mayor Meeting the Moment?
Checking the Boxes for Philly Kids While we always want more, Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker continues to invest in Philadelphia children and teens. As a candidate in 2023, she pledged to support the comprehensive Kids’ Campaign agenda, and her new fiscal...
Testimony: Universal PreK, PA House of Representatives
Testimony on Universal PreK Zaina Cahill, Early Childhood Education Policy Director Children First March 3, 2026 Download PDF My name is Zaina Cahill and I am the Early Childhood Education Policy Director at Children First in Philadelphia. I am a certified teacher,...
True or False
Here Are the Facts about Child Care Because a YouTuber posted on social media that he wasn’t allowed in secure child care centers in Minnesota, he claimed fraud. The President reacted to the post and – without any evidence – ordered an immediate freeze of $10...
Budget Wins For Kids
With Disappointment at the Federal Level, Pennsylvania's State Budget is a WIN for Kids. Ask most Pennsylvanians how they would grade the performance of their state and federal representatives and senators and they’d generously give them an F. In our...
This Will Scare You
Sticks and Stones and Names Will Hurt You Troublemaker. Disruptive. Difficult. These labels can follow a child around their whole life with devastating consequences. At a Philadelphia City Council hearing organized by Children First, teenagers shared their...
REPORT: Supporting All Young Learners to Thrive
Exclusionary discipline in early childhood education (ECE), including suspension, expulsion, and informal removals (soft suspensions), disrupts learning during children’s most critical years and disproportionately impacts Black children, Hispanic boys, and children...
Keep the Fizz for Philly Kids
Arguments Against Soda Tax are All Flat In response to a 2015 landslide voter referendum in support of a tax on sweetened beverages, the Mayor and City Council passed the levy that pays for more than 5,000 children to attend pre-k, completed upgrades to 48 city...
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...