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Monday, October 12, 2009

October 22 is Lights On Afterschool

The school district’s A-OK programs (at Adams, Cleveland, Franklin, Harding, and McKinley campuses) and the city's RAP programs (at Adams, Cesar Chavez/Franklin, Monroe, OAS, Roosevelt, and Washington) will be joining hands with 7,500 other communities across the nation to celebrate Lights On Afterschool on Thursday, October 22. The children will celebrate by decorating the fences and other areas around the schools with paper light bulbs. Each site on will invite families to attend A-OK and RAP programs so that they too can experience a typical day of activities including crafts, sports activities, Laugh Riot, Wild Rumpus, homework assistance and much more.

The event is held to call attention to the afterschool programs that keep our children safe, inspire them to learn, as well as assist working families with their afterschool care needs. Nationally, working families face many challenges when it comes to caring for children in the afternoon hours. More than one in five children of working families in California go home and are unsupervised after school. To learn more about Lights On Afterschool go to http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/loa.cfm