The new administration and Congress are considering changes to current federal health care law, including the components known as the Affordable Care Act or “Obamacare,” Medicaid, and the Children’s Health... read more →
Photo by Gage Skidmore. Last week, President Trump and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney released the administration’s fiscal year 2018 budget blueprint. This “skinny budget” outlines... read more →
Photo by Gage Skidmore. As expected, President Trump’s long-awaited “skinny budget” contained deep cuts to domestic discretionary spending. Particularly disappointing to those of us in the afterschool STEM education community... read more →
Photo by Gage Skidmore. This morning, President Trump unveiled his budget priorities for 2018. Among those priorities? Singling out afterschool funding for elimination. The president’s budget justifies this devastating cut... read more →
By John Thoresen, CEO of the Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif. More than one in six children suffer from physical abuse, and one in 10 children will be... read more →
Catonsville Elementary School Community Service Group Expands (Baltimore Sun, Maryland) Over the course of the school year, Westchester Elementary School students have run a candy drive for troops overseas, written... read more →
By Allison Coleman, program manager at the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA), and Ava DeBovis, national network manager at the Alliance for a Healthier Generation. This post was originally... read more →
So you give a dollar (well, probably more than one) to the federal government in taxes. How does it get spent? It might surprise you to know that only about 2... read more →
A new research paper from the Girl Scout Research Institute suggests that girls are in a worse state than they were before the Great Recession. Released in February, the report outlined the trends in... read more →
By Jennifer Siaca Curry, Ed.D. Jennifer has worked in the afterschool and expanded learning field for over a decade, working with the statewide afterschool network in New York and ExpandED... read more →