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<\/p>\nOn October 1, 2010, one-hundred POWER-PAC parents and children rallied to \u201cStep Up for Kids\u201d as a part of a national campaign of the Every Child Matters Education Fund. Parent leaders and advocates nationwide want to make children a priority on the local, state and national agenda. \u201cWe demand that our elected officials pay attention to the ways that budgets and policies are negatively impacting young people in our communities,\u201d explained POWER-PAC co-chair Lynn Morton.<\/p>\n
In the photograph above, POWER-PAC leaders speak with State Legislator Kenneth Dunkin to ask him to \u201cStep Up for Kids\u201d and help pass legislation in Springfield \u2013 especially SJR80 which creates a Statewide Task Force to bring recess back to all Illinois elementary school children. Other issues focused on by the national Step Up for Kids campaign include: health care, the prevention of child abuse, child care and juvenile justice.<\/p>\n
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