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A summer rich in history for students who looked, listened and questioned

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Making History’s goal, said Rachel Reinhard, the executive director of the Berkeley history project, is to help teachers explore local history “as an entry point to understand national and international trends” while giving students “new eyes for looking at the communities they live in.” She said for students from low-income East Oakland, a jumping off point for discussion might be the Oakland Community School, a free school, cherished by the neighborhood, that the Black Panther Party started on a church property at the height of its influence in the mid-1970s.

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The Cost of Summer

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Summer can be a costly time for low-income families. According to Jennifer Peck, Executive Director of the Partnership for Children and Youth, “While middle-income children retain knowledge or, in many cases, make gains over the summer, low-income children fall behind.” Summer learning programs are a cost effective way to prevent summer learning loss and close the opportunity gap. In order to better understand the cost of such investments, Summer Matters conducted a small survey of partner organizations offering high quality summer learning opportunities in California.

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Summer Site Visits Announced

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The Summer Matters campaign is excited to showcase quality summer learning programs across the state. The site visits will include orientations to the programs and opportunities to see staff and youth in action.

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Funding Resource Guide

Summer Funding Resource Guide

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The National Summer Learning Association (NSLA), in collaboration with the White House, Civic Nation, and U.S. Department of Education developed the 2016 Funding Resource Guide to help state and local leaders identify the most promising funding streams to support summer learning and to show how innovative states, districts, and communities have creatively blended public and private funding to develop programs, services and opportunities to meet the needs of young people during the critical summer months.

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Taking Summer Seriously

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With the Packard Foundation’s support, a coalition of educators, policymakers, and families launched the Summer Matters campaign. Eager to build on-the-ground models of great summer programming, the stakeholders worked to create high-quality programs across the state that address local needs of children and youth.

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San Francisco Summer Resource Fair

San Francisco Summer Resource Fair

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At the Summer Resource Fair, families can meet representatives from more than 200 organizations that provide summer camps and classes. Come and find some fun things for your kids to do over the summer months at this free event.

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