SparkUpdate Archives
SparkUpdate: June 1, 2011
What matters most in your life and in your community? What would you change? And what forces can help bring make that change true and lasting?
SparkUpdate: February 16, 2011
SparkAction Update: Making sense of competing visions for America's future
SparkUpdate: February 9, 2011
SparkAction Update: Ask Sec. Duncan launches, stories to drive home federal budget crunch and more
SparkUpdate: January 26, 2011
SparkAction Update: Graduated and Unskilled? Protecting Good Ideas and more...
SparkUpdate: January 20, 2011
We've spent a week talking about civility in the wake of the Tucson shootings, but other important themes also emerged - treating mental illness and limiting access to automatic weapons...
SparkUpdate: November 10,2010
SparkUpdate: Farm to School versus the Fast Food Ad Monster, with the Youth Vote and more
SparkUpdate: November 3, 2010
SparkUpdate: all childhoods in all states are not created equal, and more
SparkAction Update: June 30, 2010
CFK Update is now SparkAction: Transforming Schools, Policy Spotlight and more
CFK Update Special Edition: September 9, 2009
No Child Left Behind, Census Data, a Job Opening and more!
CFK Update: July 15, 2009
CFK Update: As If You Were There - Coverage of Key Events, Children's Budgets, Health Reform, OST and much more!
CFK Update: July 1, 2009
CFK Update: July 4th isn't a holiday for kids, health care and stimulus funds!
CFK Update: June 3, 2009
Children's Well-Being in a Recession, Health Care Reform, Early Childhood News and more!
CFK Update: May 20, 2009
Your Successes, Mapping Communities, Helping Youth for the 21st Century and more!
CFK Update: May 6, 2009
Stamp Out Hunger, Long-Term Ed Outcomes, Juvenile Justice Violations and More
CFK Update: April 8, 2009
Handing out the Stimulus, Help for Young Families, Charter Schools and more!
CFK Update: March 25, 2009
A Controversial Amendment to the Service Act, Budget and Stimulus Watch, Heath News and more!
CFK Update: December 17, 2008
Health Care for Kids, Letters to the Next President, Innovations in Ed and more
CFK Update: December 3, 2008
Challenges for your community, what our kids are eating, voters dig after-school and more
CFK Update: November 19, 2008
Can We End Hunger in America? Pre-K Out of Reach, Tips for Reaching Young Teens and more
CFK Update: November 5, 2008
Post-Election Rallying Calls, Early Childhood in the States, the "Civics Achievement Gap" and more
CFK Update: October 22, 2008
New Laws to Watch, Texas Graduation Woes and Tools, Is Yours a Healthy State? and more
CFK Update: October 8, 2008
Kids' Role in the Recovery, Changing our Approach to Youth, Early Childhood and more!
CFK Update: September 25, 2008
Breaking News in Child Welfare, Three Cheers for These Policies, What to Watch after the Elections and more
CFK Update Special Edition: September 15, 2008
Toward a Brighter Future: An Essential Agenda for America's Young People.
CFK Update: September 10, 2008
Step Up for Kids, Making Sense of the Census, Tools for Work, Funding and more!
CFK Update: August 6, 2008
CFK Update: Higher Ed Passes, Kids' Status in Brief, States Innovate in Foster Care and more
CFK Update: July 23, 2008
Children's Budget Act Introduced, Simmons Sweats Congress, the Hunger and Obesity Paradox and more
CFK Update: July 9, 2008
Education Slips among Voters, Poverty Stats Get Real, Virginity Pledges and more
CFk Update: June 25, 2008
Fighting Child Poverty, State Scorecard on Children's Health, Funding Tips and more
CFK Update: May 14, 2008
Addressing the Needs of Kids in the Subprime Crisis, Foster Care 411, Youth Service and more
CFK Update: April 30, 2008
So Many Tools, So Much Help for Your Work, Health News, Grad Rates and more
CFK Update: April 16, 2008
Following the Money to Youth, Evaluation Tools, Youth Court Sets Records and more
CFK Update: March 19, 2008
The Weekly is now the Update! Fighting Poverty, Youth Voices, What Works in Education and more
CFK Weekly: February 20, 2008
Foster Care Online and on the Airwaves, School Testing and Dropout in Texas, and more
CFK Weekly: December 12, 2007
The Real Math of Child Poverty, Campaigns for Kids, Tools for Your Work and more
CFK Weekly: December 5, 2007
Congressional To-Do List, Head Start Renewed, Who Scores Poorly in Math/Science and more
CFK Weekly: November 14, 2007
No Child Left Inside, Major Foster Care Reforms in MS, Education and more
CFK Weekly October 31
Child Protection Success Stories, Ed Woes in Texas and the South, Tools for Your Work and more
CFK Weekly October 24
A New Social Contract for Kids and Boomers, Learning and Foster Care, After-School Matters and more
CFK Weekly: October 17, 2007
CFK Weekly: What Americans Really Think about Kids' Health Care, When Parents are in Prison, Middle School Teachers' Lament, and more
CFK Weekly October 10
Teens in After-School, Shorting Foster Parents, Good News on College Costs, and more
CFK Weekly: October 3, 2007
Kids Spell V-e-t-o, Race and Foster Care, Lights on AfterSchool, and more
CFK Weekly September 26
Decoding the Nation's Report Card, Immigrant Grads' DREAM or Draft?, Poverty and the Future of Children, and more
CFK Weekly September 19
Helping Teen Victims, Sustaining Programs, Investing in Kids, Health Coverage and more
CFK Weekly August 29
CFK Weekly: Poverty Data, New Orleans Now, Back-to-School, Funding Tools and more
CFK Weekly: July 25, 2007
CFK Weekly: KIDS COUNT, Child Support, SCHIP, Tools for Working with Youth, and more
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CFK Weekly July 11
Grading Adults, Family Leave, the Pentagon on Reconnection, After-School Tools, and more
CFK Weekly, June 6
CFK Weekly: Hunger In America, Youth Services Beyond Age 18, Why Invest in Parents, and more
CFK Weekly, May 30
CFK Weekly: School Success, Kids & the Federal Budget, National Youth Summit and more
CFK Weekly May 23
CFK Weekly: Promises to Children, Federal Budget, History and Civics Scores, and more
CFK Weekly May 16
CFK Weekly: Changes in Public Opinion on Poverty, Kids' Health Care, Summer of Service, and more
CFK Weekly May 9
CFK Weekly: Head Start Moves in Congress, Foster Care Toolkit, Silent Epidemic Summit, and more
CFK Weekly: May 2, 2007
CFK Weekly: Tools for Transitioning Teens, Latinos and Early Learning, Ending Poverty and more
CFK Weekly April 25
CFK Weekly: Who are the 45 Million? Arts Education meets Art Therapy, Strengthening Families, and more
CFK Weekly: April 18, 2007
CFK Weekly: Healing in the Aftermath, Children's Mental Health, Budget Basics, and more
CFK Weekly: April 4, 2007
CFK Weekly: BirthRight, Advocacy Tools, Child Care Debate, Taxes, Obesity, and more
CFK Weekly: March 28, 2007
CFK Weekly: Business and Youth Development, Measuring Advocacy, Juvenile Justice, Paid Leave, and more
CFK Weekly March 21
Youth Justice, Young Heroes, Health and Nutrition Tools, Military Families and more
CFK Weekly March 21
Youth Justice, Young Heroes, Health and Nutrition Tools, Military Families and more
CFK Weekly March 21
Youth Justice, Young Heroes, Health and Nutrition Tools, Military Families and more
CFK Weekly February 14, 2007
Reconnecting Youth, Health Care, Tools for Advocates, School Reform, and more
CFK Weekly: February 7, 2007
CFK Weekly: Federal Budget, Funds to Reconnect Youth, After School Success, and more
CFK Weekly January 31, 2007
CFK Weekly: Best Communities for Youth, Aging Out, Minimum Wage, NCLB and more
CFK Weekly January 31, 2007
CFK Weekly: Best Communities for Youth, Aging Out, Minimum Wage, NCLB and more
CFK Weekly January 24, 2007
State of the Union, Balancing Jobs and Family, Paths to College, Funding Ideas, and more
CFK Weekly December 20, 2006
Homelessness, hunger, family volunteering, child care unions, and more....
CFK Weekly - August 14, 2006
School is around the corner, Covering Kids, data on rising child poverty and much more
CFK Weekly: August 7, 2006
Minimum wage, infants’ mental health, states target the very, very young and more
CFK Weekly - July 31, 2006
Family income and work, NCLB continues to dog states, children’s health insurance and more
CFK Weekly - July 24, 2006
Washington sets program funding, child poverty data, where's the middle and more
CFK Weekly - July 17, 2006
Kid-friendly budgets, tapping community power, as well as developments in foster care, e-learning, mental health services, and more
CFK Weekly - July 10, 2006
A real crisis for boys, or not; the digital divide; video games fight back and more
CFK Weekly - June 26, 2006
Americans back school reform, Trouble for some families, Proof of citizenship for Medicaid and more...
CFK Weekly: June 12, 2006
Estate Tax lives, Public broadcasting under fire, Methamphetamine crisis, and more...
CFK Weekly - June 5 2006
Estate Tax, Body mass, High school exit exams, Growing up in the age of AIDS, and more...
CFK Weekly - May 30, 2006
Voices move industry and government, Reading fur fun, Return of Recess and more...
CFK Weekly - May 22, 2006
Summer Childcare; Federal Budget passes House; Family Income, Foster Care and much more.
CFK Weekly - May 15, 2006
Military families; Census news; Health care in the states, Education issues and much more
CFK Weekly - May 1, 2006
Foster care in focus, immigration updates, health, education issues and much more
CFK Weekly - April 24, 2006
“Wellness” in Schools, Special Ed in court, School-wide program planning, foster care and much more
CFK Weekly - April 10, 2006
Help for Suicidal Gay Teens, Low-Wage Work on Oprah, Health and Education issues and much more
CFK Weekly - March 27, 2006
Leonardo's Basement, foster care issues, health care, book reviews and much more.
CFK Weekly - March 20, 2006
Teens Online Safety, After-School Programs, Obesity Research, and much more
CFK Weekly - March 13, 2006
Kids and Food Allergies, State EITCs Help Working Families, Budget Issues and much more
CFK Weekly - March 6, 2006
Even Start, Health Policy, School Wellness Policy and Practice, “Aging Out” and much more
CFK Weekly - February 21, 2006
Early Developmental Screenings, More on Budget Cuts, Teacher Quality and much more
CFK Weekly - February 13, 2006
School Finance Reform, EITC Guide, Engaging Parents, Budget News and Much More