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  • Education

    CDF Endorses Agenda of Civil Rights Principles for Safe, Healthy, and Inclusive School Climates

    The tragedies that have occurred in schools across the country demand serious investments in evidence-based policies and practices that keep children and staff safe and do not exacerbate the school-to-prison pipeline, further criminalize marginalized children, or increase the over-policing of students in schools and communities. In order to ensure that students are learning in safe, healthy, and inclusive environments, we seek PK-12 school climate legislation that meets the following principles. We ask members of Congress to fulfill their role in helping educators and communities create and maintain safe schools that afford all students equal educational opportunities by incorporating these principles into all relevant legislation.

  • Child Health

    Juneteenth: Celebrate Through Resistance

    As we commemorate Juneteenth on Friday, June 19, it’s impossible to not reflect on the history of this country and where we are today. Historically, America has refused to recognize Juneteenth as a national paid holiday.

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  • Immigration

    Supreme Court Rejects Trump Administration’s DACA Termination

    We celebrate that today DACA lives on, but we also square our shoulders for the work ahead. To our lawmakers, we remind you: Every child should have the opportunity to grow up in a safe, stable and loving family. You must create a permanent solution to this nation’s immigration crisis and ensure families can stay together. 

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  • Child Poverty

    New analysis from CDF: Housing Is a Racial Justice Crisis: Solutions for Children and Families During COVID and Beyond

    The COVID pandemic is magnifying our housing and racial inequities at the same time it is creating financial instability for too many families. Without federal intervention, millions of families, especially Black families, will fall behind on rent and could be subject to eviction in places that adopted no protections for renters or in places where eviction moratoriums have begun to expire. If Congress fails to act, the harm will fall unequally on Black children and families, who are already disproportionately harmed by high housing costs, homelessness, and the devastating economic and health effects of the current pandemic. 

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  • Education

    Senate Hearing Describes a “Perfect Storm” of COVID-19 Problems for Country’s Marginalized Students

    Without a large and urgent Congressional investment in public education, our students are facing a “perfect storm” of problems caused by COVID-19: schools with scant budgets will be forced to make massive cuts, which will likely come from the parts of school budgets meant to provide critical resources to marginalized students, exactly at the moment when students are going to need more support than ever.

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  • Youth Justice

    Why Ending Police Violence and Racist Policing is a Children’s Issue

    We will continue to urge our nation’s leaders – and our partners in the children’s advocacy field – to take decisive action to fight for systems and communities that protect and value Black children and their livelihoods mean just as much as white children. People of all walks of life are demanding urgent, effective, and transformative change. That starts with holding our police accountable and ending police violence, but it does not end there. Our children are watching. When will they see a change? 

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