This week, multiple news organizations reported Scholastic would allow elementary schools to exclude certain books with racial or LGBTQ-related content from their campus book fairs [...]
Read MoreLast night, multiple news organizations reported Scholastic would reverse its decision from just days ago to allow elementary schools to exclude certain books with racial or LGBTQ-related content from their book fairs
Read More“President Biden’s framework brings us one step closer to a historic, essential, and long-overdue investment in our country’s children and families. We’re poised to boost families’ economic stability and reduce racial inequities in income, housing, education, and health care that harm Black and brown children every day. We appreciate the countless child advocates, parents, friends in the White House, and champions in Congress who have fought for decades to bring us to this point."
Read MoreTen Black Educator Promise Fellows From the American South Will Advance Their Leadership Through New, Best-in-Class Trainings NEW YORK, October 13, 2021 —The Children’s Defense [...]
Read MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Beki San Martin rsanmartin@childrensdefense.org 301-755-7110 CDF’s new ACLS Fellow will reimagine what a culturally responsive teacher training looks like from the Freedom [...]
Read MoreComprehensive report from the Children's Defense Fund shows that even before the COVID-19 pandemic, children were the poorest age group in America, with children of [...]
Read MoreWashington, D.C. February 10, 2021 - Thanks to a $1 million grant from The Boeing Company, the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools® program will now offer culturally responsive STEM education to students under the banner of a new initiative entitled “CDF Freedom to STEM.”
Read MoreStatement by the Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson, President and CEO of the Children’s Defense Fund The End of Innocence about America Washington, D.C. – Just [...]
Read MoreThe Children’s Defense Fund released the following statement today in response to House passage of an updated COVID-19 relief package: Washington, D.C. – Since the [...]
Read MoreWASHINGTON, D.C. (August 11, 2020) – Children’s Defense Fund, Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), Save the Children, Save the Children Action Network (SCAN), and [...]
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