Help secure $73 Million for ASES
Request for Action due by 3/30 – Support Letters for ASES Daily Rate Increase
The Summer Matters campaign seeks to provide access to high-quality summer learning programs to all children in California. Without a rate increase, all expanded learning programs are at risk for a decrease, rather than increase, in quality, including summer. Please take a few minutes to read how YOU can help.
After School Education and Safety (ASES) programs’ funding rate of $7.50 per student daily rate has not changed since 2006, despite a 19% increase in the cost of living and increases in the minimum wage. Without an increase to ASES funding, it will be difficult to sustain quality after-school programs and there is risk that some programs might have to close. As part of the California Afterschool Advocacy Alliance, the Partnership for Children & Youth is proud to join the statewide campaign to increase the ASES daily rate.
PCY is cosponsoring AB 2663 – After School Programs, authored by Assemblymember Jim Cooper (D- Elk Grove). Sponsored by the California After School Coalition, this bill would provide additional funding for the ASES Program to increase the daily rate to $8.50 per day/per student and implement a permanent cost of living increase for ASES which other state programs receive.
Here’s how you can help:
- Share your support for AB 2663 by sending a letter of support to the Assembly Education Committee by Wednesday, March 30th at 12:00 PM in order to ensure that your support is listed in the Committee bill analysis. Click here to send an email or here to download a sample letter in support of AB 2663.
Once completed you can either mail or fax your letter to Assemblymember Patrick O’Donnell’s office at (916) 319-2187 or send it electronically to PCY at Jocelyn@partnerforchildren.org and we will fax it on your behalf.
This bill will be heard in the Assembly Education Committee Hearing on Wednesday, April 6.
- If you can send additional letters, contact our Budget Subcommittees on Education by Friday, April 25. The Senate and Assembly Budget Committees are expected to consider a related $73 million budget increase to ASES for 2016-17 in the coming weeks which would raise the student daily rate to $8.50.
Click here to download a sample letter or here to send an email to the senate budget committee and fax to Senator Block (916) 651-4039.
Click here to download a sample letter or here to send an email to the assembly budget committee and fax to Assembly member McCarty (916) 319-2107.
Additionally, if you live in the following regions, please send a letter to your legislators on the Budget Subcommittees as well: download letter to fax
San Diego County – Asm. Rocky Chavez (Fax # 916-319-2176)
Los Angeles County – Sen. Ben Allen (Fax # 916-651-4926) and Asm. Patrick O’Donnell (Fax # 916-319-2170)
Orange County – Sen. John Moorlach (Fax # 916-651-4937) and Asm. Young Kim (Fax # 916-319-2165)
Ventura County – Asm. Jacqui Irwin (Fax # 916-319-2144)
- No time today, but want to help in the future? Click here to sign up for updates on the ongoing statewide campaign to increase the ASES daily rate.
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CSBA Legislative 2014 FactsheetJuly 5, 2017 - 11:09 pmThe purpose of this fact sheet is to provide an overview of the potential impact summer learning programs have on California’s schoolchildren. Summer programming has become more achievable for districts due to the flexibility provided by the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF).
Ensuring access to summer learning for all studentsJune 13, 2017 - 3:57 pmThe research is clear that summer and after-school programs provide numerous benefits to students. According to a study by John Hopkins University, during the summer months children living in low-resource communities who are not engaged in activities tend to fall into a “summer slide,” while their peers from more economically advantaged communities build skills that will help them succeed. Students without positive summer activities lose nearly two months of competency in reading, and these losses are cumulative. By ninth grade, summer learning loss accounts for nearly two-thirds of the achievement gap in reading. Also well-documented are the negative impacts on health: youth without summer learning programs gain weight at a higher rate than during the school year. This is particularly true for children and youth of color and those who are already overweight.
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