Opportunity and Hope in America’s Public Schools

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children. Any other ideal for our schools is narrow and unlovely; acted upon, it destroys our democracy.” — John Dewey, The School and Society…

Medicaid Block Grants and the Rationing of Health Care

Medicaid is a critically important health program that serves to protect the health of millions of Americans with disabilities and children in low-income families that have nowhere else to turn for their care. It is also the place…

Children’s Health Insurance Program: If It Ain’t Broke. . .

In 1997, 1 in 7 children (or over 14 percent) were living without health insurance coverage in the United States. In response to this crisis, Senators Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) worked together on legislation…

Quit Playing Politics with the Health of Our Nation’s Children

Having worked in the Senate and House for over a decade, it is tragic is witness the inability of Members of Congress to forge bipartisan compromises to move our nation forward. Even worse, as the recent debacle over…