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Weekly Media Roundup: September 11, 2024

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Weekly Media Roundup: September 11, 2024

Philadelphia Program Allows Students to Tap into Healing Power of Music, WHYY (Pennsylvania)

Students in afterschool programs across Philadelphia are expressing themselves and processing difficult emotions through songwriting thanks to Beyond The Bars, a local nonprofit. Matt Kerr founded the program in 2015 to bring music therapy to incarcerated teenagers, and now partners with afterschool programs at schools and community centers as well. “It’s such a natural means of expressing what’s hard to say,” Kerr told WHYY. “It’s one of the things that we can both do as self-expression and also communal expression.”

YWCA McLean County Offers Free Before and After-School Care to Sheridan Families, WGLT (Illinois)

Thanks to a $60,000 grant from the Illinois State Board of Education, YWCA McLean County is offering its Young Wonders Early Learning and Youth Development program at no cost to families at its Sheridan location.  “There’s just a higher population of low-income families [at Sheridan], and so this grant will give them the opportunity not only to get caught up on other bills that they have but also to receive free parent education,” Melissa Breeden, YWCA McLean County’s vice president of education and curriculum, told WGLT. The YMCA McLean County has five additional afterschool program sites and chose to direct the grant funding to the program with the greatest need for financial assistance.

DC Promotes More than 120 Free After-School Programs, WTOP News (District of Columbia)

Last weekend, parents and students in the District of Columbia gathered to explore more than 120 free afterschool programs made possible by $25 million in city funding for out-of-school time activities. Programs advertised offerings including poetry, break dancing, tutoring, football, entrepreneurship, African drumming, chess, podcasting, and more.  “Because I’m a parent, that is why I’m here. I need my daughter to know … what’s available to us to be able to get her a better education … I want her to be in the STEM [science, technology, engineering and math] programs, I want her to get into the arts,” Taseeta Samuel, parent of a fifth grader, told WTOP News.

Generous Grant Supports Grounds for Sculpture After-School Programs with Trenton and Hamilton Students, Trenton Daily (New Jersey)

With support from the John Ben Snow Memorial Trust, Grounds For Sculpture (GFS) will partner with three local organizations in New Jersey, enhancing their STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) afterschool programs with a creative arts-based curriculum. “Through this partnership, our scholars have the opportunity to experience GFS’ art collection, practice and explore different crafts, and present their social justice capstone projects to the community on their beautiful grounds,” Natalie Tung, executive director of HomeWorks, told the Trenton Daily. In addition to HomeWorks, Grounds For Sculpture is also collaborating with the Hamilton YMCA and The Father Center of New Jersey.

Weekly Media Roundup: August 14, 2024

Virginia Designates Additional Aid for At-Risk Students, Virginia Mercury (Virginia) Beginning this fall, Virginia schools will have an additional $180 million per year to support at-risk students. A 2023 study found that Virginia provided less state funding for at-risk students than the...

BY: Magen Eissenstat      08/14/24

Weekly Media Roundup: August 7, 2024

Chicago Touts After-School Program Growth But Cuts Funding, Chalkbeat Weeks before the school year begins, many Chicago afterschool programs are facing dramatic funding cuts as federal COVID funds wind down and Chicago Public Schools is allocating fewer resources to out-of-school time programs....

BY: Magen Eissenstat      08/07/24

Weekly Media Roundup: July 31, 2024

A North Texas School District is Offering a Free Dinner Program for Students This Year, WFAA (Texas) This fall, Fort Worth Independent School District is partnering with Sodexo to provide free dinners at its afterschool enrichment programs. “We are excited about the opportunities this...

BY: Magen Eissenstat      07/31/24

Weekly Media Roundup: July 24, 2024

Davis Promotes Afterschool Programs in McKeesport Visit, The Mon Valley Independent (Pennsylvania) To celebrate Pennsylvania’s new BOOST (Building Opportunity through Out of School Time) initiative, which includes $11.5 million for afterschool, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Austin Davis visited...

BY: Magen Eissenstat      07/24/24

Weekly Media Roundup: July 17, 2024

The Dog Days of Summer Drag. Summer Learning Programs Can Help, The Journal (Colorado) To celebrate National Summer Learning Week, 360 students across nine Colorado counties wrote postcards to their state lawmakers about why they love their summer learning programs. “I think summer camp is...

BY: Magen Eissenstat      07/17/24

Weekly Media Roundup: July 10, 2024

Education Matters: Central Valley Schools Are Expanding Students’ Learning Experiences,Your Central Valley (California) Thanks to a series of partnerships with county offices and Community Youth Ministries, students in the Selma Unified and Kings Canyon Unified School Districts in Fresno,...

BY: Magen Eissenstat      07/10/24

Weekly Media Roundup: July 3, 2024

Inside a Summer Learning Camp With an Uncertain Future After ESSER, Education Week More than 1,400 students are participating in Grizzly Learning Camp, a free, seven-week summer learning program run by Ypsilanti Community Schools in Michigan. It uses project-based learning – including...

BY: Magen Eissenstat      07/03/24

Weekly Media Roundup: June 27, 2024

The Surprising Reason Black Schools Face a ‘Fiscal Cliff’ This Fall, Word in Black As federal COVID emergency funds expire this fall, Black students around the country are at risk of losing access to afterschool programs and other supports that students in better-funded school...

BY: Magen Eissenstat      06/26/24

Weekly Media Roundup: June 20, 2024

Parents in Viroqua Come Together for the 'Save the After School Program' Campaign, WXOW (Wisconsin) At the McIntosh Memorial Library’s afterschool program in Viroqua, Wisconsin, students take part in outdoor games, visit local arts organizations, read to a therapy dog named Gordon,...

BY: Magen Eissenstat      06/20/24

Weekly Media Roundup: June 12, 2024

Tacoma's Late Night Summer Youth Program Aims to Curb Violence, Fox 13 Seattle (Washington) At 12 locations across Tacoma this summer, middle and high schoolers are taking part in Summer Late Nights programming held by Metro Parks Tacoma and Tacoma Public Schools. Each weeknight, teens can...

BY: Magen Eissenstat      06/12/24