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The Corporate Imperative: Results and Benefits of Business Involvement in Education - September 1998

After-School Programs: Students should have a safe haven to go to after-school where enrichment and learning takes place.

The American Business Collaboration, an alliance of 22 of the country's largest corporations, supports many different kinds of activities, including a number of innovative projects and activities to ensure that school-age children have productive, safe, and interesting ways to spend time outside of school. The Collaboration provides start-up funding to groups such as the Y.M.C.A. to launch after-school programs that serve children of contributing companies' employees as well as other children in the community. Through the support of the Collaboration, many schools and community groups have expanded their after-school programs to operate before school as well. Business leaders in the Collaboration have also held forums with school leaders to discuss the need for after-school programs and the resources available and hosted a summer program for after-school program leaders on how they can incorporate and use science and technology in after-school activities.

Benefits

Businesses can help allay parents' safety concerns by
sponsoring after-school programs that help children learn

The Need for After-School Programs Percent of elementary school parents who want an after-school program 77% Percent of middle school parents who want an after-school program 82% Percent of schools offering extended-day programs (1993-94) 30%
Source: NCES, Schools Serving Family Needs: Extended-Day Programs in Public and Private Schools, 1996;
U.S. Department of Education and the GTE Foundation, Family Involvement in Education: A National Portrait, 1998.


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