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Article: 18 Million Children Need - But Don't Have - Afterschool Programs, According to New 'America After 3 PM' Study
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- October 7, 2009
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Gretchen Wright, +1-202-371-1999, for Afterschool
Alliance
Survey of 30,000 Households, Sponsored by the JCPenney
Afterschool Fund, Shows Marked Increase in Demand for Afterschool
and More Children Unsupervised in the Afternoons Now than in 2004
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Despite an increase
in the number of children attending afterschool programs over the
last five years, today more than a quarter of the nation's
schoolchildren are on their own in the afternoons, and the parents
of 18 million children say they would enroll their kids in
afterschool programs if programs were available. These are among the
findings from a new survey of nearly ...