A report on a survey of close to 14,000 parents and guardians nationwide finds a jump in reported participation in afterschool in the U.S. over the last decade. Some 18 percent of children in the surveyed households took part in an afterschool program in 2014 — equivalent nationally to about 10.2 million children. That compares with 15 percent in 2009 and 11 percent in 2004. At the same time, unmet demand for afterschool programming is large; extrapolating from the survey findings, the report says that 19.4 million more children would be enrolled in afterschool if a program were available to them. A fact-sheet offers the survey’s summer learning findings, including an 8 percentage point increase since 2009 in the number of families reporting a child’s participation in summer programming. Wallace was one of the funders of the survey.

The full report can be found in the database here: http://www.americansforthearts.org/by-program/reports-and-data/legislation-policy/naappd/america-after-3pm-afterschool-programs-in-demand

This one pagers summarizes findings from the Afterschool Alliance's report, America After 3pm: Afterschool Prrograms in Demand. "More Parents Report Enrolling Children in Summer Learning With increased awareness of the problem of summer learning loss, new research from the forthcoming America After 3PM report demonstrates expanding support for summer learning programs among parents."