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Summer Programs
Following Covid Money in Education
July 11, 2022

How one district used Covid funds to send kids to camp — on a college campus

Lodi Unified sent 240 students to camp - at $3,300 each - at a nearby college for academics, socializing and fun

Carolyn Jones
Los Angeles Unified
July 1, 2022

Local organizations bring STEM programs to Los Angeles Unified

A group of museums, aquariums and STEM organizations from across Los Angeles County have officially established themselves as the LA STEM Collective as they aim to provide enrichment to students.

Kate Sequeira
Covid-19
March 8, 2021

Bay Area school district among first to announce plans for summer school

West Contra Costa Unified has committed to an in-person summer school program in an effort to reduce learning loss over the past year.

Ali Tadayon
College Readiness
August 14, 2019

High school starts early for California freshmen in ‘summer bridge’

Studies show that freshman year can be one of the most critical years in a student's academic journey.

Sydney Johnson
Math and Science
July 31, 2019

At a summer program where community comes first, STEM education thrives

From residential life to calculus, relationship-building comes first in this STEM summer program.

Sydney Johnson
Math and Science
July 26, 2019

Science gets hands on in summer STEM programs, but funding challenges remain

Many programs struggle to keep up with operational costs, potentially limiting access to STEM offered outside of school hours. 

Sydney Johnson
Policy & Finance
March 29, 2018

Federal funding for after-school programs intact, despite threatened budget cuts

The federal budget includes $1.21 billion for programs to help children in high-poverty areas with reading, math and science homework after school.

Ashley Hopkinson
Early Learning
December 19, 2017

Early intervention helps boost reading skills for California children most at risk of falling behind

A program designed to improve young children’s reading skills is showing results in San Mateo County through a focus on preschools and summer learning.

Ashley Hopkinson
Social and Emotional Learning
August 8, 2017

Circle up: Teaching social-emotional skills year round

All social-emotional learning, all the time as California moves to start a conversation between after-school and summer programs and their school-day counterparts.

Jane Meredith Adams
Commentary
June 12, 2017

Ensuring access to summer learning for all students

Failing to invest in after-school and summer programs would undermine two decades of work to help communities close the learning gap for children of color, low-income children and working class families.

Jennifer Peck
Math and Science
June 11, 2017

Middle-school students embrace endless summer ... of linear equations

Free summer programs help kids struggling in math get a head start on algebra and geometry.

Carolyn Jones
College & Careers
May 22, 2017

California colleges welcome revived federal Pell grants for summer school

To the happy surprise of some officials, thousands of California students may benefit from the expansion of federal Pell grants into summer sessions. The extra funding is expected to help speed up the time to graduation for low-income students.

Larry Gordon
Curriculum
July 22, 2015

Congress sends mixed messages regarding after-school program funding

Advocates are encouraged that the program is receiving bipartisan support.

Susan Frey
Curriculum
November 19, 2014

Review focuses on expanded learning programs

A review of 30 well-designed studies on after-school and summer programs across the country found mixed results regarding their benefits on student academic performance. Students who were below grade level in English gained the most from these programs, according to some of the studies.

Susan Frey
Curriculum
July 17, 2014

Poll shows more students in summer programs

Data released today from a national poll shows that a third of families with school-age children had enrolled at least one child in a summer program in 2013. That is an increase from five years earlier when only a quarter of families had enrolled their children in summer programs.

Susan Frey