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Child Abuse Prevention Month ≈ Month of the Young Child

12 years ago

This month, child advocates across the country are promoting awareness around two very important issues. April marks the national Child Abuse Prevention Month and the Month of the Young Child. …

Let’s Learn from President Obama’s Early Learning Plan

Speaking for Kids

12 years ago

Tomorrow, President Obama is expected to reveal his budget recommendation for federal fiscal year 2014, which begins October 1, 2013 and ends September 30, 2014. With his budget proposal is…

Authority and Evidence

Speaking for Kids

12 years ago

Last week, the Michigan House of Representatives passed a bill to expand the Educational Achievement Authority beyond the city of Detroit. This is the most recent of a long line…

Steps Forward, Steps Backward on Michigan’s Responsibility

Speaking for Kids

12 years ago

As we debate public responsibility for many things, there cannot be any argument about our public responsibility for the children who we have removed from their families and placed in…

What Will You Be Doing This Spring Break?

Speaking for Kids

12 years ago

Over the next two weeks, Michigan’s Legislature is on spring break. Sure, many legislators may be, literally, taking a break with their families but this also provides a great opportunity…

March Madness

Speaking for Kids

12 years ago

March Madness – the excitement of the best college basketball teams competing for the national championship spot. As a University of Michigan alumna, I can’t help but get a little…

Does GSRP Have the Wrong Intentions?

Speaking for Kids

12 years ago

Last week, the Michigan House and Senate education committees heard from Susan Broman, Deputy Superintendent of the MDE – Office of Great Start, and others on the Governor’s proposal to…

Opportunities Toward Empowerment

Speaking for Kids

12 years ago

In the last two months as Michigan’s Children’s new intern, opportunities toward empowerment have surfaced as a main theme that permeates the work I have witnessed here. One of Michigan’s…

Will Michigan Leaders Rise to the Sequestration Challenge?

Speaking for Kids

12 years ago

I know, I know. We are all a bit fatigued by the Sequestration conversation. The word itself is too complicated and irritating, and the public is so fed up with…

Why Health Insurance Matters to an Equitable P-20 System

Speaking for Kids

12 years ago

Here at Michigan’s Children, we recently switched our health insurance plan, and I’ve been dealing with the headaches associated with it. Mainly, finding a new physician (that the customer service…