What a week it has been! The significance of President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw from the 2024 election and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris cannot be overstated. We affirm and celebrate the joy and hope this has ignited for many, envisioning the prospect of a woman – particularly a woman of color – as President of the United States. …
When former President Trump announced last year that, if reelected, he would ‘stop’ gender-affirming care for minors, which he described as ‘child abuse’ and ‘child sexual mutilation,’ he was advancing a strategic political effort to restrict the rights of transgender and nonbinary students barreling through state and federal legislatures. Initially masked as attempts to define the rights of parents to …
For much of the past four years, news cycles, school board meetings, and state legislative agendas have been dominated by hostile political rhetoric surrounding identity-related topics such as teaching the history of race and racism in America, the rights of parents in directing curriculum, and bans of literature. These conversations, absent any real inquiry and often guided by a swinging …
Since the expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) of the American Rescue Plan expired in 2021, the federal government has moved slowly to extend and codify an expanded version. The credit proved to be a remarkable mechanism for providing economic relief to children and the families who raise them. These regular payments helped families afford gas, food, rent, and school expenses …
Our tax system can be a means for building and supporting healthy communities, which ultimately supports thriving children. Through distributive methods like tax credits and returns, the tax code houses economic relief for households around the country. Economic empowerment is built through safety nets that may be supplemented by the benefits of tax credits and returns, but only if they …
This month at TEP we are honing in on our Policy Priority Areas. We want to share why each is important to realizing our dream of quality education for all of God’s children. We also want to share how you can partner with us in strategically demanding better for our kids and our schools. This year we are focused on …
As we continue to highlight this year’s policy priority areas, we want to focus our attention on teachers. We firmly support ALL policies that affirm the profession of teaching and the dignity of teachers. When it comes to the classroom, teachers are well-suited to offer students what they need for nurture and development – and to do so in the …
While the future of an expanded child tax credit (CTC) on the national stage appears murky, states around the country are dutifully writing their own child tax credits into state tax codes. Eleven states have passed legislation to grant qualifying households with dependents direct cash assistance since the temporary expansion of the federal child tax credit ended. The fully refundable, but …
This month at TEP, we are focusing on our Policy Priority Areas. We want to emphasize why each area is important in realizing our goal of providing quality education for all of God’s children. This year, our main focus is on prioritizing the joy of Black and Brown children. Public schools can become spaces where every student thrives. It is …
This month at TEP, we are focusing on our Policy Priority Areas. We want to emphasize why each area is important in realizing our goal of providing quality education for all of God’s children. This year, our main focus is on prioritizing the joy of Black and Brown children. A crucial element of that work involves investing in physical spaces …
