Parents value after-school programs, but demand far exceeds available capacity, particularly among low- and middle-income families, a new report finds. Families want after-school programming for about ...

Around 3:30 in the afternoon, a group of bandana-clad middle schoolers gather around a neatly laid table, covered with a colorful, floral tablecloth. The smell of freshly baked granola wafts through ...

Local parents wanting to enroll their children in after-school programs are unable to do so, mostly because of high costs, a ...

Families raising children in rural Oregon often have limited access to after-school activities that boost social skills, ...

Tables and chairs arranged in a classroom. Senior Correspondent The after-school program disappeared from the Utah school where Jessica Langford sends her two older children, ages 7 and 9, in October ...

Manny Padia’s first job with an Arizona summer program for children changed his life when a young boy asked if he would be his father. “I had to let him know I couldn’t be his dad, but I could be his ...

Some West Aurora families will receive free after-school care this year after the park district secured a $330,000 Dunham ...

Some after-school programs for children have established food pantries as families report more food insecurity.

Four out of five Massachusetts families surveyed want after-school care for their kids, but aren’t getting it. That’s the big takeaway from a new nationwide report out this month from the organization ...

Two Shasta County high schools re-examine after-school programs in wake of federal funding freeze The freeze affects roughly $339,000 allocated for high schools in Cottonwood and Anderson Students at ...