Fighting for strong kids, families, democracy. Executive Director @WeAreDCAction. Never underestimate the power of your voice, it could change the world.
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18 Mar 2019
This morning’s meditation:
“To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.”
—Dalai Lama
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Jun 13
Thank you @ChmnMendelson for averting a child care crisis by finding nearly $100M in the FY27 budget! Please help us finish the job: $2M for Pay Equity.
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Kimberly Perry retweeted
Comparing mayoral listening sessions will tell you everything you need to know about how they will govern:
✅ @Janeese4DC held SIX education listening sessions, anyone could speak, full chat & debate.
❌ @kenyanmcduffie held ONE w/ pre-selected speakers only & a disabled chat.
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Kimberly Perry retweeted
Interrupting your regularly scheduled twitter programming to invite you to join an exciting new campaign led by 16 local and national orgs (including @DCFPI) to build solidarity with neighbors across the country for #DCStatehood
When you show up for DC, you are showing up for the democracy you want to live in too.
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Kimberly Perry retweeted
You’re kidding yourself if you really think a curfew is what we need now when you’re cutting the services that give young people better options in the first place.
Like, let’s be serious.
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She proposed several tax and fee changes in her budget, folks. Including on income taxes...
Now, @MayorBowser is pushing back against any proposed tax increases, and Mendelson himself says he wants to see them as a last resort. In a letter to the council today Bowser slammed "making major tax policy on the fly with no public input."
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Kimberly Perry retweeted
I see a woman who’s gracious to a departing colleague on his last day as he resigns from office, looks to find common ground, and shows value in public service. Interesting choice to turn that around and use it as fodder for a campaign ad. That choice says more than she did.
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May 23
She’s. On. Fire. When we fight for kids and working families. We win! Let’s go win this thing!
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May 23
Amen, Councilmember!
“We all have a responsibility here. We cannot cut childcare so that the CFO can keep their parking and come in [twice] a month. We cannot cut healthcare for residents so that the CFO can sit on a hundred vacancies. We cannot cut food access programs because of a mythical cash flow problem that no one can provide any analysis for.”
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Kimberly Perry retweeted
Apr 30
@mcoxmitchell, chief program officer at the @BainumFdn said the Pay Equity Fund has helped stabilize DC childcare. Removing that support could push experienced teachers out and that families would immediately feel the impact. wtop.com/dc/2026/04/advocate…
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Kimberly Perry retweeted
Apr 30
She’s thoughtful, engaged on everything, and she’s very good at oversight. Partnership isn’t weak or “hitching your wagon”. Creating bold solutions to stabilize the childcare industry couldn’t and shouldn’t have happened without women’s leadership. 2/2
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Apr 30
Agreed, and in subsequent legislation, her staff remained heavily involved in shaping the design of the Pay Equity Fund. Both on direct payments to early educators and PEF grants (what we have now).
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Kimberly Perry retweeted
Apr 30
Ears were 🔥 during tonight’s Mayoral debate. Gotta fact check tho. The amendment referenced providing better childcare for working parents wasn’t mine alone, it was collaborative leadership with Janeese. We wrote it together & changed lives and bank accounts for thousands. 1/2
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Kimberly Perry retweeted
Apr 29
@KTravisBallie, organizing director @DCAction—said access to #childcare is important for the District’s economic interests.
“People want District residents to get back to work, to show up in offices, and District families need child care in order to make that happen,” Ballie said. “This is an economic issue as much as it is a child development issue.”
georgetownvoice.com/2026/04/…
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Kimberly Perry retweeted
Apr 21
Spent some time with a group of current & former D.C. foster youth who, over 2 years of work, wrote a bill to transform the system for older teens at risk of aging out w/o being adopted or finding permanent family. It's an experience they know: wapo.st/3OtN7AH
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MY VIEW: Audrey Kasselman of @WeAreDCAction makes the case 4 the Early Childcare Educator Equity Pay Fund. She said that without it, centers will likely cease operation, which decimates options for working parents who drive the local economy.
@WashInformer story coming soon...
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Kimberly Perry retweeted
Just as @MayorBowser is proposing cuts to the Pay Equity Fund that helps increase pay for child care workers, @urbaninstitute has released results from a survey that found that the fund was good for providers and in some prevented increases to the tuition that parents pay.
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Kimberly Perry retweeted
DC money raised since 3/11:
JLG - $68k
McDuffie - $57k
Out-of-state money:
McDuffie - $22k
JLG - $11k
Who would fight for childcare? And
who would fight to protect tax loopholes for their out-of-state donors?
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Apr 10
RT @EmpowerEdDC: The mayor just suggested twice that paying early childhood educators more is irrelevant to making child care affordable fo…
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Kimberly Perry retweeted
The Mayor claims that the Pay Equity Fund doesn’t contribute to quality learning, the number of child care slots or the strength of the economy. All those claims are false. The PEF attracts high quality educators to the field and directly leads to the availability of quality care
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You cannot have more childcare slots if you don’t have a qualified workforce to serve more families.
The Pay Equity Fund helped stabilize our childcare market. It also ensures that our early childhood educators can live and take care of their families too!
"Most families want more opportunities, more spots, and they want it to be less expensive. We don’t think that about the Pay Equity Fund. It’s not an affordability fund, it’s an income support fund. It’s laudable but it does not respond to what people are saying," she says.
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