Creating partnerships with community based organizations makes programmatic and fiscal sense.

When schools and Community Based Partners to provide expanded learning opportunities, it creates a unique opportunity to accomplish LCAP parent engagement and pupil achievement goals. This is especially true when exploring strategies to engage your most disadvantaged families including low socioeconomic, English language learners, and traditionally underrepresented groups.

Research has shown a correlation between student connectedness and engagement in Expanded Learning programs and an increase in attendance in the school day—yielding an increase in ADA funding.

Expanded Learning opportunities are essential components of a student’s success.

About California’s Expanded Learning Programs

Since 2007, roughly 4,500 schools in California have offered Expanded Learning opportunities.
25% of California students participate in before and after school, summer learning, and intercession programs (CA After 3, 2014).
California’s investment in Expanded Learning Opportunities is nearly $700 million per year when state and federal funding are combined, leading all over states combined.
Governor Brown signed SB1221 (Hancock) into law in 2014, which improves Expanded Learning programs’ impact on students by focusing on summer learning loss and strengthens program quality.

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Indicators of Success

Elementary school students who participated for 3 or more years in LA’s BEST afterschool program were about 20% less likely to drop out of school than similar students who did not attend the program.
By the 8th grade, students who participated in LA’s BEST in elementary school years demonstrated gains in math, science, and history GPAs, as well as standardized test scores.
Participants in 86 Oakland Unified School District afterschool programs increased their school-day attendance by 35,343 days in 2010-11, earning the district close to $1 million in additional revenue.
A southern California high school increased its on-time graduation rate by 28% over 4 years attributed to Expanded Learning opportunities.