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The Michigan After-School Partnership is partnering with other after-school networks throughout the state and country to defeat the President’s proposal to cut 21st CCLC funding by 27%.

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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:

  • Increase funding and improvements to after-school in No Child Left Behind
  • 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.

Take Action!  Vote for after-school investments at Change.org

  • If the issue gets enough votes it will be part of a nationwide campaign being executed by change.org
  • Find out more about the Ideas for Change in America project.

Please visit www.afterschoolalliance.org for further details.