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26 Jan Allies for Children’s Best of 2023!

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(January 26, 2024) 2023 was a big year for Allies for Children. It was our first full year with our new...

23 Jan County Executive Makes Exciting Investment to Support Child Care and Families

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(January 23, 2024) On January 10, County Executive Innamorato and the Department of Children Initiatives (DCI) announced a $500,000 expansion of...

22 Jan The Need for Foster Parents: A Growing Crisis

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(January 22, 2024) This Bold Voices blog post was written by one of Allies for Children’s partners about a subject that...

12 Jan The BEF Commission Report Has Arrived: What Do They Recommend?

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(January 12, 2024) After months of hearings and receiving testimony from education stakeholders across the Commonwealth, the Basic Education Funding Commission...

12 Jan The Crystal Ball: What will the final federal fiscal spending bill look like in 2024?

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Update, 1/19/24: Congress passed another stopgap CR – bullet number two discussed in the post below – that will fund...

15 Dec 2024 Operating Budget Approved by County Council

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(December 15, 2023) On December 4, the Allegheny County Council voted to approve County Executive Rich Fitzgerald's proposed operating budget for...

15 Dec Voices of CTE Heard by New State Director

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(December 15, 2023) On November 17, Steel Center for Career and Technical Education hosted the first ever Greater Pittsburgh Career and...

01 Dec Student Mental Health Advocacy Day

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(December 1, 2023) On Wednesday November 15, 2023, I had the honor and privilege to support The Jewish Healthcare Foundation and...

20 Nov Adequate and Equitable: What it Means for PA Schools

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(November 17, 2023) We at Allies for Children have already written quite a few blogs following the court decision back in...

10 Nov Election Debrief: Local and County Offices

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(November 10, 2023) Allies for Children collaborates with stakeholders across the federal, state, and local levels on policy solutions to improve...