{"id":27424,"date":"2023-08-31T11:30:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T15:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=27424"},"modified":"2023-08-31T11:30:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T15:30:54","slug":"riley-institutes-keely-calls-for-investment-in-afterschool-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/riley-institutes-keely-calls-for-investment-in-afterschool-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley Institute&#8217;s Keely calls for investment in afterschool programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Keely, director of South Carolina Afterschool Leaders Empowered at The Riley Institute at Furman University, writes an opinion piece for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/opinion\/commentary\/commentary-professionalizing-afterschool-programs-worth-the-investment\/article_23afd18e-45b0-11ee-a2ba-b77180be550e.html\">The Post and Courier<\/a>. In it, she points to the need for more investment in afterschool and expanded learning programs and describes how SCALE and events like PowerUp! support the professionalization of expanded learning initiatives. &#8220;Investment in afterschool programming, including at a high level as a collective profession, can translate to partnerships, collaboration and program development that benefit afterschool staff, school districts and, above all, children and families,&#8221; Keely writes.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her role with SCALE, Keely also directs the Dick and Tunky Riley WhatWorksSC Award program, which recognizes outstanding evidence-based programs that positively impact public education in South Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Keely urges more private, state and federal investment in afterschool and expanded learning programs in an article appearing in The Post and Courier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":27426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,29,116],"tags":[2267,2268,2270,143,2269],"class_list":["post-27424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers-and-institutes","category-in-the-news","category-riley-institute","category-the-post-and-courier","tag-afterschool-programs","tag-expanded-learning","tag-powerup","tag-public-education","tag-scale"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}