Pittsburgh Post Gazette March 4, 2019 More Allegheny County schools are feeding breakfast to students who qualify, putting many on track to meet Gov. Tom Wolf’s goal of providing breakfast to at least 60 percent of eligible students by...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Talk of dozens of efforts to help disadvantaged kids had gone on for an hour Thursday when a soft, Scottish-accented voice piped up. “Why don’t you just go ahead and create a strategic plan for Pittsburgh’s kids?”...
Kidsburgh – Martin Lorenzo couldn’t understand it. The food service director for Gateway School District knew more kids were eligible for the free breakfast program, but they weren’t taking advantage of hot meals provided in the high school cafeteria. The solution? Meet...
Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group (PCRG) – Over the summer, a coalition of ten Allegheny County organizations came together and has worked endlessly to introduce a voter referendum in the November election with the intent of funneling resources towards addressing early learning,...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – A proposal to increase property taxes by $25 on each $100,000 of assessed value to fund children’s programs in Allegheny County will appear on the Nov. 6 general election ballot. If voters approve the measure, the approximately...
Kidsburgh – A plan to raise $18 million in funding for the creation of the Allegheny County Children’s Fund is one step closer to reality. The Our Kids. Our Commitment. initiative collected nearly 63,499 signatures – 23,499 more than needed to be...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Advocates pushing for a quarter-mill property tax increase to fund children’s programs in Allegheny County have filed tens of thousands of signatures, aiming to put the measure on the ballot in the fall. The “Our kids....
TRIB LIVE – In this election year, we are hearing a lot of debate on issues like state budget structural deficits, rising costs of social services, workforce skills gap, cost of education — the list goes on and on....
The Jewish Chronicle – These are extraordinary times. As noted in the Chronicle’s June 21 opinion piece, “The purpose of a newspaper,” the more polarized opinions become, the more we need lively, respectful debate over issues that are important to us....
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Wearing bright purple T-shirts and carrying clipboards, a half-dozen or so volunteers are standing near the entrance to the Carnegie Science Center. As families come inside on a recent Monday morning, a clipboard-wielding woman cheerfully asks...
