Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Reader Questions Cutting After School Programs, POLL - Patch.com

Reader Questions Cutting After School Programs, POLL
Patch.com
Full day kindergarten or After School Programs, which do you think is more important?



LAUSD board to vote on $6.3B budget Thursday; after-school care ... - Los Angeles Daily News

LAUSD board to vote on $6.3B budget Thursday; after-school care ...
Los Angeles Daily News
About 8000 additional youngsters are enrolled in complementary after-school programs that will have to shut down without LAUSD personnel there to supervise.

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Catholic Charities USA Quarterly Snapshot Survey Finds Resource ... - MarketWatch (press release)

Catholic Charities USA Quarterly Snapshot Survey Finds Resource ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The summer months pose a huge concern for families with school-aged children that depend on food programs and after-school programs and services during ...

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Mt. Angel schools facing more budget reductions - Statesman Journal

Mt. Angel schools facing more budget reductions
Statesman Journal
... staff, no band program, no full-time principal at its middle school, one less custodian and severely reduced funding for certain classes and after-school programs.



Loblaw Awards more than $250000 to After-School Programs ... - Stockhouse

Loblaw Awards more than $250000 to After-School Programs ...
Stockhouse
Loblaw Awards more than $250000 to After-School Pr.

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Local after-school programs in jeopardy - WOOD-TV

Local after-school programs in jeopardy
WOOD-TV
After-school programs that school leaders say have been very successful -- even models for the rest of the state -- may not be there when students come back in ...

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Monday, June 25, 2012

Experts helping children with parents deployed - San Francisco Chronicle

Experts helping children with parents deployed
San Francisco Chronicle
In addition to working with individual students, counselors offer lessons in the classroom and after-school programs that any student in the school can participate ...

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Rec budget cuts hit lifeguards, parking checkers, after-school ... - Fairfield Citizen

Rec budget cuts hit lifeguards, parking checkers, after-school ...
Fairfield Citizen
Reducing the number of after-school programs and senior fitness classes run by the rec ... Lombardo didn't specify which after-school programs or senior fitness ...



Top After-School Programs Caught in Budget 'Dance' - New York Times

Top After-School Programs Caught in Budget 'Dance'
New York Times
The shortened week brings lots of school events and news, from budget cuts threatening critical after-school programs to borough-wide meetings on how to use ...



L.A. City Council to Vote to Oppose Cuts to After School Programs - Patch.com

L.A. City Council to Vote to Oppose Cuts to After School Programs
Patch.com
LAUSD trustees are also expected to vote on the district's final budget Tuesday. It calls for the virtual elimination of the "After the Bell" programs.


Saturday, June 23, 2012

Dahlia Heights After-School Programs Gone - Boulevard Sentinel

Dahlia Heights After-School Programs Gone
Boulevard Sentinel
Hi Tom, You neighbor down the street, Janet Borrus here. I write to let you know that last week families at Dahlia Heights were informed that the after-school ...



Area organization earn Physical Activity, Nutrition Awards - Morning Sentinel

Area organization earn Physical Activity, Nutrition Awards
Morning Sentinel
Healthy Northern Kennebec, a local Healthy Maine Partnership, and Live Healthy recently recognized after school programs, community organizations, early ...



Families rally in Eagle Rock to restore after-school programs slated ... - 89.3 KPCC (blog)

89.3 KPCC (blog)

Families rally in Eagle Rock to restore after-school programs slated ...
89.3 KPCC (blog)
A rally was held outside Dahlia Heights Elementary School in Eagle Rock on Friday to call for saving after-school programs that are on the chopping block.



GEAR UP celebrates 20 years of preparing Native students for college - Rapid City Journal

GEAR UP celebrates 20 years of preparing Native students for college
Rapid City Journal
The program has partnered with 24 middle schools and 14 high schools statewide to provide grants for school tutoring, after-school programs, career speakers ...



Local after-school programs in jeopardy - WOOD-TV

The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com

Local after-school programs in jeopardy
WOOD-TV
After-school programs that school leaders say have been very successful -- even models for the rest of the state -- may not be there when students come back in ...
Grand Rapids and Wyoming schools lose funding for after school ...The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com

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Child advocacy group says cuts to after school programs would ... - New York Daily News

New York Daily News

Child advocacy group says cuts to after school programs would ...
New York Daily News
A ban on big sodas won't stop obesity if kids are sitting around at home snacking and watching TV rather than in after-school programs, a child advocacy group ...


Friday, June 22, 2012

Lake County YWCA celebrates 90 years - Lake County Journal

Lake County YWCA celebrates 90 years
Lake County Journal
We have day and after school programs for boys and girls. ... What is wonderful about our day and after school programs is that you will see generations of family ...



Local after-school programs in jeopardy - WOOD-TV

Local after-school programs in jeopardy
WOOD-TV
After-school programs that school leaders say have been very successful -- even models for the rest of the state -- may not be there when students come back in ...
Grand Rapids and Wyoming schools lose funding for after school ...The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com

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Embrace girls enjoy trip of their young lifetimes - The South Florida Times

Embrace girls enjoy trip of their young lifetimes
The South Florida Times
MIAMI ó Girls from the Embrace Girl Power After School Programs and Camps recently arrived at Miami International Airport to board an American Airlines flight ...



Dahlia Heights After-School Programs Gone - Boulevard Sentinel

Dahlia Heights After-School Programs Gone
Boulevard Sentinel
Hi Tom, You neighbor down the street, Janet Borrus here. I write to let you know that last week families at Dahlia Heights were informed that the after-school ...


Wednesday, June 20, 2012

A chance to be kids - Tulsa World

A chance to be kids
Tulsa World
The nonprofit organization New Hope Camp Inc. offers the summer camps and after-school programs for free. "A lot of camps aren't going to address the whole ...



Construction of community center nearly complete - WZVN-TV

Construction of community center nearly complete
WZVN-TV
... the poverty level. The community center will provide after school programs, arts programs, school supplies, family development programs and summer camps.



City School budget re-vote today - Plattsburgh Press Republican

City School budget re-vote today
Plattsburgh Press Republican
... support-staff positions, field trips, the Odyssey and High School after-school programs, supplemental transportation and food services at Momot Elementary's ...



With Parents' Support, a Chelsea School Goes Healthy - New York Times

With Parents' Support, a Chelsea School Goes Healthy
New York Times
Debbie Osborne runs P.S. 11 Inc. and directs after-school programs at the school. Ms. Osbourne, who lives in Chelsea, volunteered part time for many years ...


Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Van thefts hurting food delivery program - WSB Atlanta

Van thefts hurting food delivery program
WSB Atlanta
A rash of van thefts is hurting ministries and after-school programs in East Point. Four vans have been stolen recently, including one on Wednesday that was taken from Family Life Ministries. "We cannot go to pick up our food," Jane Gunter, ...



Cuyahoga County announces funding opportunity for after-school and summer programs - Plain Dealer (blog)

Plain Dealer (blog)

Cuyahoga County announces funding opportunity for after-school and summer programs
Plain Dealer (blog)
Starting Point, a local resource and referral agency for child care and after-school programs, will issue a request for proposal to fund such activities in 28 communities countywide, allocated across Cleveland and its suburbs.



Restore Child Care and After-School Funding to Invest in Our Children's Future - Huffington Post (blog)

Restore Child Care and After-School Funding to Invest in Our Children's Future
Huffington Post (blog)
More than a third of New York City parents say they would feel forced to quit their job if their child no longer had access to after-school programs. But despite the clear importance of these programs, The mayor's FY2013 Executive Budget would cut ...
Parents, teachers, unions and elected officials protest Bloomberg childcare cutsAmsterdam News

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5 Ways Data Can Save After-School Programs - The Atlantic Cities

5 Ways Data Can Save After-School Programs
The Atlantic Cities
After-school programs – already heavily reliant on outside funding – are put at even greater stress. But these programs don't have to fade away because of tough economic times. A new series of tip sheets from the Wallace Foundation offers ideas about ...



Hispanic Grad to Speak to Congress on After-School Programs - HispanicBusiness.com

Hispanic Grad to Speak to Congress on After-School Programs
HispanicBusiness.com
Recent Harvard University graduate Juan Hernandez-Campos will join educational leaders in Washington, DC, today to discuss the benefits of after-school programs. Quality after-school programs offer cost-effective, high-impact solutions to challenges ...



Alton kicks off city-run summer program - Monitor

Alton kicks off city-run summer program
Monitor
“One of the things that we're wanting to look at as we go through the summer program is to see if there's going to be a demand for after-school programs,” Arcaute said, explaining that city leaders would have to find the money somewhere in next year's ...



Phoenix school district considers pipeline - San Diego 6

Phoenix school district considers pipeline
San Diego 6
Balsz Elementary School District officials say the funds would likely go toward after-school programs. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality says the proposal should not affect the well-being of the 450 students who attend the school.
Phoenix district mulls Superfund pipelineKPNX-12
Sorry but Superfund sites and schools do not mixazcentral (blog)

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City plans to close dozens of after school programs across Brooklyn - New York Daily News

New York Daily News

City plans to close dozens of after school programs across Brooklyn
New York Daily News
The city is set to close dozens of Brooklyn after-school programs, angering working parents who say there's nowhere else for their kids to go. Brooklyn is slated to lose 77 of its 154 Out of School Time programs in the fall, the most programs axed in ...
Bloomberg's Budget Cuts Brooklyn's After-School Programs in HalfVillage Voice (blog)

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Budget Cuts Mean Summer School Only Free For Seniors This Year; Underclassmen ... - CBS Local

CBS Local

Budget Cuts Mean Summer School Only Free For Seniors This Year; Underclassmen ...
CBS Local
Vicki Ellis, director of after-school programs for the School District of Philadelphia. (Credit: Mike DeNardo) By Mike DeNardo PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Severe budget cuts mean that only seniors will have access to remedial summer school in the Philadelphia ...