Educating Candidates
Legislator/Legislation Scorecards
Educating Candidates
The following are resources from organizations to educate candidates and voters about children’s issues.
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
Campaign 4 Kids (Colorado Children’s Campaign) 2018 Election Guide
Children’s Defense Fund’s Voter Guide
Choose Children 2018: Campaign Toolkit
Common Sense Media Kids Action
Iowa’s Children’s Policy Coalition
Michigan’s Children: A Forum for Change and Vote Like Our Future Depends On It
New Mexico Kids at the Crossroads 2018: A Children’s Agenda for Making KIDS COUNT with Candidates
NJVotes4Kids Election Advocacy Toolkit
Partnership for America’s Children
Save the Children Action Network
Voices for Alabama’s Children: 2018 Voters’ Guide
Voices for Virginia’s Children
If you are educating candidates and voters about children’s issues, please let us know. We’d like to share what you are doing.
Legislator/Legislation Scorecards
Common Sense Kids Action’s California Legislative Scorecard 2018 rates legislators in the California Assembly and Senate based on 52 key “For Kids” and “Against Kids” bills. Legislators who scored above 90% were awarded a “For Kids” star.
First Focus Campaign for Children’s 2020 Champions and Defenders for Children: Legislative Scorecard tallies up actions that members of the 116th Congress took related to making children a top priority.
First Focus Campaign for Children’s Bill Tracker
Children’s Defense Fund’s 2020 Legislative Report Card reviews lawmakers’ actions for children.
Voices for Children in Nebraska’s 2020 Pro-Kid Legislative Scorecard