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Children’s advocacy group calls for culture shift to combat ‘school-to-prison pipeline’
The Children’s Agenda is calling for an end to school suspensions for students Pre-K to Grade 3. 84% of Monroe County parents support solutions not suspensions.
New poll shows parents in Finger Lakes are cautiously optimistic about new school year
Parents are showing cautious optimism about the new school year. That’s according to new polling by the Children’s Agenda, which took responses from 600 parents in the region about the school year.
September 2022 E-News
Preview – September 2022 E-News September 2022 Members of the Very Invested Parents (VIPs) group along with Parent Advocacy Coordinator Carmen Torres At The Children’s Agenda, we believe in the power of parents. That’s why, two years ago, we...
Children’s Agenda calls for universal childcare amid statewide shortage
As families in New York state are facing widespread shortages in childcare, The Children’s Agenda calls for greater support from the state.
Over 3,000 childcare services have closed their doors in New York
Over 3,524 regulated childcare programs have closed across the state of New York with many of those being in home child services.
Raising Rochester Podcast – Episode 18 – Rachel Bonsignore on Liftoff Western NY
Rachel Bonsignore is this week’s guest on the Raising Rochester podcast. Rachel is the Executive Director of Liftoff Western NY, an initiative to ensure all young children in Western NY are ready for Kindergarten.
Raising Rochester Podcast – Episode 17 – Jenn O’Connor on recent legislative and policy changes affecting children in New York State
Jenn O’Connor is this week’s guest on the Raising Rochester podcast. Jenn is the Director of Policy and Advocacy and Prevent Child Abuse New York. She and Pete Nabozny discuss a wide range of topics, including her background, Prevent...
June 2022 E-News
June 2022 Moral Documents Budgets reveal priorities and values. How cities, counties and states, school districts, and our nation as a whole decide to spend our money declares who matters. That’s why The Children’s Agenda has since our...
Shortage of early intervention services in Monroe County a concern for hundreds of parents
Close to 300 children are now waiting for early intervention services: help with things like speech and motor skills.
April 2022 E-News
Budgets are value statements. We cannot reduce them to only dollars and cents or spreadsheets and graphs. They require choices and when we choose one thing over another, it reveals something about us as a community. That is...
