Candidates & Elected Officials

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
• Choose Children 2018: Campaign Toolkit
• Common Sense Media Kids Action
• DC Action for Children
• Iowa’s Children’s Policy Coalition
• A Forum for Change and Vote Like Our Future Depends On It, Michigan’s Children
• New Mexico Kids at the Crossroads 2018: A Children’s Agenda for Making KIDS COUNT with Candidates
• National PTA
• NJVotes4Kids Election Advocacy Toolkit
• Partnership for America’s Children
• Save the Children Action Network
• Texans Care for Children
• The Children’s Partnership
• 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

• California Legislative Scorecard 2018 from Common Sense Kids Action 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.
• 2020 Champions and Defenders for Children: Legislative Scorecard from First Focus Campaign for Children tallies up actions that members of the 116th Congress took related to making children a top priority.
• Bill Tracker, First Focus Campaign for Children
• 2020 Legislative Report Card from Children’s Defense Fund reviews lawmakers’ actions for children.
• 2020 Pro-Kid Legislative Scorecard, Voices for Children in Nebraska
• Minnesota Legislative Scorecard: Measuring Support for Education & Student Achievement in the 89^th Legislature, MinCan