South Carolina\u2019s Department of Education is partnering with the Riley Institute at Furman University to invest $1.3 million in a new after-school and summer-learning leadership program.<\/p>\n
The initiative, called Afterschool Leaders Empowered, will train a cohort of 60 educators and community leaders in how to use after-school and summer programs to restore learning loss caused by the pandemic. Furman’s Cathy Stevens, director of the White-Riley-Peterson Afterschool Policy Fellowship, was quoted in an article appearing in The Post and Courier<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Citing data from the South Carolina Afterschool Alliance, Stevens said many parents aren’t at home when school lets out, and for every child placed in an after-school program, three more are waiting to get in. \u201cThe agrarian schedule where children get out at 2:15 does not work for working families,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" South Carolina\u2019s Department of Education is partnering with the Riley Institute at Furman University to invest $1.3 million in a new after-school and summer-learning leadership program. The initiative, called Afterschool […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,29],"tags":[1154,1155],"class_list":["post-9622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers-and-institutes","category-in-the-news","category-riley-institute","tag-after-school-programs","tag-summer-learning-programs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9622","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=9622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}