Take Action
President-elect Obama's Transition Team have launched a new page on their Web site,
Change.gov
, called, "Your Seat at the Table." The
Afterschool Alliance
have had promising meetings with the transition team who have requested a memo of policy recommendations for after-school. The recommendations Afterschool Alliance provided include:
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Increase funding and improvements to after-school in No Child Left Behind
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Support long-term strategies like New Day for Learning
What Can You Do?
The policy recommendations Afterschol Alliance provided to the transition team have been posted on their
Web site
.
Please
post
a positive comment reinforcing the importance of expanding after-school programs and supports so that the team can see what an active, broad and unified movement we are.
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If the issue gets enough votes it will be part of a nationwide campaign being executed by change.org
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Find out more about the
Ideas for Change in America
project.
Please visit
www.afterschoolalliance.org
for further details.