Better Together: Building Local Systems to Improve Afterschool
Type
Policy Brief or Report
Year
2013
Level
City or Town, School District
State(s)
All States
Policy Areas
Civil Rights, Economic Justice, Education
Almost everyone believes that afterschool programs are one of those good things for youngsters. And yet many kids are left out: Only 15 percent - 8.4 million - of the country's school children participate, according to a report, "America After 3 PM," by the advocacy organization Afterschool Alliance. That leaves millions more students returning to empty houses, or worse. At a Feb. 21-22, 2013, conference in Baltimore, close to 400 people invited from 57 U.S. cities gathered to discuss what they could do to push for better afterschool programs - and make sure that programming is available to all the kids who need it.