Only 55% of families say their children participated in summer learning opportunities during summer 2023.
Nearly half of U.S. children are without opportunities for learning over the summer, according to a Gallup poll released last week.whether their children participated in a variety of options last summer, including camps, summer school, weekly enrichment classes and jobs and internships. Of the nearly 7,000 parents surveyed, only 55% said their child did at least one. The remaining 45% said their child did not participate in any.
The gap in participation rates between upper- and lower-income families is nearly 30 percentage points, as Gallup found only 38% of families earning less than $50,000 annually had their children in learning options. The bill seeks to build connections between local education agencies and community-based organizations, as well as to "address gaps in access to high-quality summer enrichment programs for youth," according to its text.
"It's the place where, I think, the biggest opportunity gap lies, is what happens to kids after school and what they have access to during the summer," Smith told Crisis in the Classroom . "One of the things that we learned is summer actually matters a ton, and investing in summer programming is something that can be game-changing for students' education.
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