A Message to Summer-Learning Providers: Make Equity a Priority
Summer learning program providers need to rethink their approaches and do more to reach out to low-income families and communities of color trying to recover from the pandemic.
So recommends a recent report by the Afterschool Alliance, an advocacy organization for out-of-school programs, which found that students in families with low incomes were 13 percent less likely to take part in a summer program than their higher-earning peers.