With yet another federal funding deadline quickly approaching as the clock ticks down till midnight on February 8, Congress appears to have made significant progress in finally reaching a two year budget deal that extends... read more →
Mark your calendars — February 14 is We Love Afterschool! Starting now, we’re celebrating the millions of reasons to love America’s afterschool programs, and we want to see why you and your... read more →
By Heidi Ham, vice president of programs and strategy at National AfterSchool Association. For the more than 4 million English language learner (ELL) students who attend public schools nationwide, it’s more... read more →
By Ruben Balderas. Ruben is a senior at Walla Walla High School and was named a Youth Afterschool Ambassador in the fall for the 2017-2018 school year. Ruben has attended... read more →
Girls Who Code has opened their applications for their 2018 Summer Immersion Program. Over the course of seven weeks, rising 11th and 12th grade students explore and create coding through... read more →
Community Schools a Way to Improve Education (Commercial Appeal, Tennessee) Knoxville businessman and Republican gubernatorial candidate Randy Boyd vouches for community schools – like the one he helped launch at... read more →
In 1999, Sunrise of Philadelphia (Sunrise) was founded as part of a local technical high school to provide career and technical education programming to high school students and adults in... read more →
In recent years, many states across the country have started to seek government support to enact policies aimed at increasing healthy practices in out-of-school time environments. While many of these... read more →
On December 8, 2017, the Office of Child Care released a Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) Plan Pre-Print Draft for 2019-2021 for 30 days of public comment. The plan is... read more →
Advancing supportive afterschool policies, regardless of the focus area, requires a collaborative, multi-pronged approach. As such, we are delighted to continue our partnership with the Overdeck Family Foundation to advance afterschool science,... read more →