Leveraging Summer for Student Success

High-quality summer learning programs aren’t just nice to have; for many students, they’re the difference between the potential for success and falling far behind their peers. In short, if you want to give your district’s most vulnerable students the best chance to succeed — YOU NEED SUMMER.

This guide, Leveraging Summer for Student Success, shows how significant changes in California school financing and accountability systems under the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) are right now providing educators, school leaders and communities a new opportunity to reinvent and reinvest in summer learning programs.

LCFF offers districts a new tools and more incentive to develop quality summer learning programs for disadvantaged students. The guide explains how summer learning programs complement the goals of LCFF by supporting student achievement, implementation of the Common Core, and other California education priorities.