Recommendations on policy principles that should be included in the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) as they relate to the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program
This memo describes in detail CBASS's position with regard to the opening up of 21st Century Community Learning Center funds for expanded learning time programs.
This paper presents emerging practices by public media stations in implementing "transmedia" content in expanded learning settings across the United States.
The inaugural issue of the CBASS e-newsletter includes useful resources to increase learning opportunities in your city, hear of upcoming events, and learn about system-building strategies and initiatives that are changing young peoples’ lives across the country.
16 Aug 2012, CBASS, Boston After School and Beyond, the Ohio Afterschool Network, and The Wallace Foundation
This webinar featured findings from and reactions to the Collaborative for Building After-School Systems’ (CBASS) first national survey of OST intermediaries and offers advice to cities on how to be most effective.
This article in the Summer 2012 issue of Afterschool Today explains why systems-building is an essential strategy to improve the quality of after-school programs and support positive youth outcomes.
The purpose of this survey of intermediary organizations is to better understand what intermediaries do, pinpoint the ways in which they’ve made the greatest gains, and suggest ways for spreading the progress.
CBASS's letter to Chairman Tom Harkin and Ranking Member Mike Enzi, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, contains policy recommendations in seven areas.
23 Sep 2011, TASC and the Partnership for Children and Youth
Originally published in the Huffington Post, this essay makes the case for strengthening and expanding the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program.
This memo to Senator Bernard Sanders contains policy recommendations for the Improving Student Achievement and Engagement through Expanded Learning Time Act of 2011 (S.1311).
