American Rescue Plan funds fuel expansion in afterschool programs

Billions of dollars earmarked for afterschool programs in the American Rescue Plan have begun to flow into programs nationwide, setting some on a course to double or even quadruple capacity. In Georgia,

School Districts Are Starting to Spend COVID Relief Funds. The Hard Part Is Deciding How

District leaders and school business officials are scrambling to allocate significant, and in some cases unprecedented, sums of money while navigating complex bureaucratic hurdles and a public health crisis that

New Report Finds Unmet Demand for Afterschool Programs in America’s Rural Communities Rising Sharply

Just 11% of America’s rural children are enrolled in an afterschool program. For every rural child in an afterschool program, four more are waiting to get in. That’s an even

Spiking demand, growing barriers: The trends shaping afterschool and summer learning in rural communities

In 2014, there were 3.1 million rural children not in an afterschool program who would have participated in a program if one were available to them—roughly three times the population