Connecting Candidates to Kids
Posted by rheine on Aug 8, 2012 at 2:06 PMElection Day is less than three months away and we still aren’t hearing much from candidates at all levels about their plans to improve the lives of America’s children. Voices for America’s Children is working to change this through its…
Putting children on campaign radar in FL
Posted by rheine on Jul 18, 2012 at 3:47 PMAround 22 percent of American children live in poverty. So why are we talking about child poverty only 2 percent of the time? That’s what we asked in our recent report, which found that children’s issues hardly came up during…
Student testing – who to believe?
Posted by Roy Miller on May 31, 2012 at 1:43 PMToday’s guest blog post is by Roy Miller, president and founder of Voices member organization The Children’s Campaign.
In 1998, with the release of the first Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT), Governor Lawton Chiles told the Ocala Star Banner, “Overall we…
“School Shootings: Let’s Not Forget the Others”
Posted by Jacquelyn Lendsey on Feb 29, 2012 at 5:17 PMFollowing the terrible school shooting in Ohio this week in which three students were killed and two others injured, the nation again tries to understand the tragedy of violence in schools. Our Florida member The Children’s Campaign has a meditation…
“Government is a lot of times a child’s only protection”
Posted by rheine on May 9, 2011 at 5:54 PMRoy Miller, head of our Florida member The Children’s Campaign, explains that while some may demonize government lately, sometimes it’s the best line of defense against child poverty and abuse. The memorable video illustrates (literally) how our system helps…
