REGISTER YOUR LIGHTS ON AFTERSCHOOL EVENT TODAY On October 22nd, communities across the country will come together for Lights on Afterschool, the only nationwide celebration of afterschool. If you are a program provider, a parent, a community member or a program participant, you know there is a lot to celebrate. Afterschool programs across the country […]
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Local voice matters…I recently looked over the signatories of a letter that is going to Congress about after school. As I looked down the list, after Arkansas and California’s large showing, I got to Connecticut. Only two organizations had signed on. According to the Afterschool Alliance blog, this letter was signed by more than 100 national and 560 […]
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Friday, June 19 is National Summer Learning Day. Spread the word that we need to #KeepKidsLearning. For more information visit the National Summer Learning Association website.
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Enriching Summer Programs Mean Success for All Children: How to Close the Achievement Gap Did you know that children who don’t have an enriching summer environment can lose up to 1/3 of what they learned over the past school year? Most of the children who experience this “Summer Slide” are minority children from low-income […]
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One-day Volunteer Opportunity, with a Hawaiian theme! The Connecticut State Department of Education is currently looking for a few good grant readers to help them evaluate grant proposals for after school programs. This is an unpaid, one-day volunteer commitment on June 30, 2015 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Stanley Black and Decker University Conference Center in New Britain, CT. […]
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A celebration of after school programs featuring Imagine Dragons’ “Top of the World”. This video premiered at the 2015 National After-School Summit hosted at USC through the USC Schwarzenegger Institute. Watch this video on YouTube
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The state legislative session has ended for the year, and a budget was passed in the final hours. For all the details you can see the details here. Youth Service Bureaus also seem to pretty much intact. A few questions remain from some of the larger line items that include multiple programs, such as the […]
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Legislative Update – Monday April 27, 2015 The Appropriations Committee has just released its budget proposal at a press conference this morning. Co-Chair Rep. Toni Walker was especially supportive of after school programs in her remarks describing the committee’s proposed budget: “We maintained the support for education, for our K-12 system, for our early childhood […]
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Earlier this month, the National Afterschool Association held their Annual Convention just outside of Washington, DC. The focus of the convention was telling the story after school programs play in the lives of children and youth everyday. A group of students from Connecticut were selected to be on a workshop panel to share their thoughts, ideas, […]
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After School programs are at risk of losing federal funds Congress is considering legislation that threatens the only funding source dedicated to after school, the 21st Century Community Learning Centers initiative, with extinction. It’s crucial that a diverse and broad set of voices tell Congress to keep funding intact for the after school programs that are […]
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