A Head Start teacher from Lehighton will be U.S. Rep. Ryan Mackenzie\u2019s guest for the State of the Union Address.<\/p>\n
Sarah Arndt, a lead teacher at PathStone Carbon County Head Start, will accompany Mackenzie to President Donald Trump\u2019s address Tuesday evening, Mackenzie announced in a news release. Arndt has been a teacher at PathStone for 13 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe work of Sarah and her colleagues highlights the critical role early childhood education and child care play in supporting our communities,\u201d Mackenzie said in a statement. \u201cAs a working parent and a proud advocate for the needs of working families, I\u2019m grateful to have Sarah joining us to bring attention to the value of affordable, reliable child care and early childhood education. In the months ahead, I\u2019ll continue working alongside people in our community like Sarah to deliver real results for working families.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mackenzie said among his priorities in Congress has been addressing rising child care costs. His first bill introduced in Congress was the Working Families Tax Package, which includes increasing the child tax credit, paid family and medical leave tax credit and employee-sponsored child care tax credit; and expanding the adoption tax credit and creating a matching IVF tax credit.<\/p>\n
He also has supported a permanent increase to the child tax credit, expanded employer-sponsored child care benefits and increased Head Start funding.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m honored to be representing children, families, and teachers in the Lehigh Valley and the Poconos at the State of the Union,\u201d Arndt said in a statement. \u201cEarly childhood education provides children with the head start that they deserve, and I appreciate this opportunity to highlight the impact that it makes every day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Head Start teacher from Lehighton will be U.S. Rep. Ryan Mackenzie\u2019s guest for the State of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,182,139,50,432],"class_list":["post-122913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}