Coming their way. Insight andir information is ignored, it often leads to consequences that might have been averted. Friday at 8 00 eastern, Harvard University sociologist and author William Julius wilson. Every citizen does not fully understand the complex forces that have increased, for example, their economic woes. Economic insecurities create conditions that are breeding grounds for racial and at intention. This week at 8 00 eastern on cspan. Tonight on the communicators. Inthe things i care about terms of consumers being first and foremost in our mind, when it comes to policy, my interests , when it comes to serving them. That has not changed. The longestserving fcc commissioner and the only democrat on the commission talks about how the fcc is changing under Republican Leadership and what she sees as the major issues ahead. Nn stanton. Rted by ly when we go into a direction that is more philosophical than practical, we have to ask ourselves, will consumers be protected . Under the current paradigm i p, what imeed u hearing in terms of moving back to the days of old, i really do not see where the consumer benefits will derive. Tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan two. Education professionals took part in a Panel Discussion on the role of k12 afterSchool Programs. The Panel Focused on the impact of Actors School on students, parents, and the community. The panel is part of a National Afterschool summit hosted by the Arnold Schwarzenegger institute for state and local policy the university of california. [applause] thank you. This Panel Conversations focus is how afterSchool Programs help keep kids in school and on track. We will start with monica. When they said, arnold, isnt this program spoiling kids . You did not need a program, right . I said when i was secretary of education that this is like a tale of two cities. We have high schools that win the economic decathlon and we have high schools that are like dropout factories and unfortunately that is usually determined by zip code. The poor communities where 90 of the kids are in poverty are not getting the same level of certified teachers, books, and other things they need in those schools. Let me get you, secondlargest School District in the country with 600,000 kids. What to see the role of afterschool . It is not what schools is supposed to do, but how does it help get the goals that every School District needs to achieve . Absolutely. What we know in l. A. Is we are all about 100 graduation. 100 attendance. Engaged them ways. It relies on an afterschool plan. L. A. Unified has gone from 40 45 graduation to 75 graduation because we have improved relationship with all students. We have built 131 new schools to make space but we focused on personalization and decentralization. Afterschool is about enhancing services to young people, about somebody caring, being there, but also somebody investing in you. AfterSchool Programs help is learned in a very positive way so you get role models. Whether it is strategies or athletic or art and music. Whatever that and richman is, we are telling you we love you, we have High Expectations of you, and we believe in you. Even for kids who participate in the supper program, that means they get three meals a day on campus. Our afterschool folks are mentors are bridges, connectors, and sometimes, sometimes, they are the only person that that young person would have during that time. L. A. Unifieds program, we have 1200 programs on 600 sites, serving over 100,000 kids every single day. Yes, i am glad we are here because, yes, we need more. It is a strategy for app academic wellness, and social, emotional learning, and we know it works. We know it works. It is good for l. A. , it is good for california, it is good for the usa. Thank you, monica. I will come back a little later. We want to talk about kids in poverty where english is a second language. Speaking of the day program, what it can do to supplement a School Program to help achieve the goals. I am going to go to the oregon superintendent of the year, heidi, from your perspective, as the superintendent of the year, what are the best things this could be helpful to the people in each state, what can they focus on . What does afterschool best focus on to help the kids achieve what they need . Heidi after school helps students dream new dreams. [applause] it is very difficult for kids, especially in rural areas to dream about careers that they have never seen. They had not been exposed to. Through afterSchool Programming we are able to develop longterm mentoring via skype and other videoconferencing with professionals in fields. That allows the students to start to see a different future for themselves. We support that. We support that with classes to build the skills and confidence that they can move forward. My favorite examples, we have a great group of people with blue chalk media that will mentor the students. As the students gain editing and and video skills they can share their voices. The confidence that helps the students gain changes their trajectory. They no longer think of themselves as a student in poverty, but a student at a mission, a purpose, and a path. Thank you. I am going to go to you because not only are you one of the great think tankers, you actually have experience bringing education to southern states. From that perspective, similar question, what are the best uses of afterschool time to help kids stay in school and on track . What can they do. First of all, it is great to be on the usc campus. I was never a student here, but i did grow up in los angeles, in the crenshaw district. In the early 1970s i learned to swim at a pool not too far away from here. It is good to be here. Let me go to your question. Lets be clear, afterSchool Programs are educational, not necessarily just academic. Here is the difference. When i learned how to swim, that was educational, but there is no test, or standardized test for swimming. When i was in st. Louis i had a chance to speak to a number of students, most of them free, reduced price lunch students who were learning to play chess. Last i checked there was not a standardized test for chess playing. Look at florida and virginia. We have good Public Schools in both states. About great Public Schools and therefore we dont need an after School Program. You can have a great school, and a great afterSchool Program. Between 3 00 until 6 00 we are building students minds, bodies, spirits, and souls. From talking to students, parents, particularly parents, who say the after School Program is more than just babysitting. Those were the cold phrases people would say, we should be paying for them. The reality is theyre giving parents comfort. They are going to get access to social capital skills theyre not going to get in the seven day school hour or to comment what they learned. For me afterSchool Programs ra holistic approach to building holistic children to in fact make the country great again. [applause] eloi. I wanted to hear from k12 School District leaders. Now we are going to learn from the gentleman who knows Community Colleges with over 2 million students. Out of everyone in the country you are probably be best seated to understand what the gaps are. What are the students getting out of high school and going to Community College, what are they lacking so that this audience can better understand, from your perspective, the areas afterschool might better focus on to help fill those gaps . Eloi thank you, bonnie, thank you for the invitation. That is hugely important for all of Higher Education. The education of our students, Higher Education does not begin the day they walk into the Community College or public university, it begins their first days of life. All the way through. Those that are successful, those successful ino be those institutions are the children that have the opportunities in life, to be able to navigate life and learn to have a structure in place, a network in place that allows them to have a safety net, allows them to be able to progress socially. That is the biggest gap we have when kids come to our colleges. We know today that a High School Diploma is not the default anymore to get into the workforce. We are exacerbating the challenges they will have throughout life, if theyre not to come to college. That readiness begins early. For us, afterSchool Programs building a social network in the communities that help students with all of the skills they need to be successful in college, not just academic preparation, but life preparation. Those are the Biggest Challenges we face. California Community Colleges, it is our privilege to accept the top 100 of students. From all walks of life all , backgrounds young and old, they come to our colleges. The greatest denominator is whether or not they built a network in their life that allows them to succeed in life and to succeed in life, it allows them to succeed in college and make their life easier. Bonnie im going to follow up on that. Yes, as important as the social network is, thank you for stressing that, while afterschool cannot replace the academic teachings that regular schools should, what are where do you see the greatest areas of academic weakness that exist in the students math, english . Stem . What areas academically might you be seeing some deficiencies in some of the Community College students entering . Eloi as educators, we have created standards. Whether or not that makes sense, we have created them. Algebra is the primary, essentially the killing fields for students of color in Higher Education. If there is an area of emphasis, study after study shows, if a student does not master algebra two in elementary school, in high school, their chances of succeeding in Higher Education are probably less than 10 . It is literally the biggest barrier to quality credential of anything else. Certainly language skills, vocabulary, and as long as algebra is a gateway to a College Credential we need to focus on it. Bonnie i will pick up on that with you. I remember when i had the privilege of working with arnold and danny and starting out of the l. A. Program in middle schools, is that we also heard the importance of algebra. Especially middle school, it has to be fun or the kids will not stay. They are not required to be there. I remember learning how afterSchool Programs could use disguised learning. They would use a cooking class to teach fractions. Gerard, i will go to you first. Monica you also focus on this. From your perspective, what are the unique ways that afterSchool Programs in school can help meet some of these academic gaps . Gerard several years ago my Foundation Sponsored a project where we interviewed 406 parents in four cities to figure out exactly what afterschool did for their children. A majority of the parents were low income. They had their children in afterSchool Programs that focused on the arts and the science. Some things they were getting in school, but it helps to supplement. What was particularly interesting, equestrian. Why . The parent was clear. We do not own a horse. Lets start with that. Number two, it is learning to not only how to ride a horse, but how to feel the horse. That is understanding how to feel yourself. How to work with yourself. Number two, the horse will gallop fast, do a calculation between start to finish. At the end of the day, the horse eats a lot of food. If youre not going to take care of the horse, how much would you put together every day and every week. It became math, science, can can aesthetics, and otherwise. This is a kid who otherwise you would assume would never understand a horse other than maybe being a bookie. My father was a bookie in l. A. , so i know how that works. The mother said, this will get him out of poverty. For me, i have seen unique programs change the lives of students, but also encourage parents to go back to school. Something we often dont talk about, the spillover effect. Bonnie monica, a similar question, you have one of the leading districts with an actual focus on afterschool. What do you see again most of , all these funds focus on the lower income populations, which does not have the same quality school, unfortunately as the wealthier children in those neighborhoods. What can they do, also can you pick up on what gerard said about Parent Involvement . Everyone in education knows the everyone in education knows the more likelihood for success is to involve parents. How does after school play a unique role in all of the above . Monica l. A. Unified is 91 kids of color, and 84 of kids who qualify for free and reduced lunch. Kids who are English Learners in the neighborhood of 25 28 . All through l. A. Unified, and we are large, the afterSchool Programs are amazing. Things like cyber patriots, where kids are coming in and really exploring robotics. Right now there is a team from l. A. Unified in baltimore participating. That is awesome. We also have an aquatics program. It brings us a whole set of pools so kids it is like what you are talking about about the horse. The experience of swimming is not something that is available everywhere. Our beyond the bell partners create the experience for our kids. That is really lifechanging. The other thing i want to share is we have an academic decathlon. In the world of the best of the best, worst of the worst lives in l. A. Unified, we provide ways that our students benefit from each other in the learning experiences. We want to set a high bar for all and give Different Levels of support. If you are in english learner, the ability to spend more time speaking with people. The ability to hear more people talking in english, that is very important. If you are a poor child, like we heard before, your environment is not going to go beyond a few blocks from the house. When you get on a bus and you go visit a college, a football stadium, whatever the field trip is, that is just building desire, dream, efficacy because you are beginning to imagine that world for yourself. Our afterSchool Programs and the partners that we work with, in l. A. Unified, we have so many partners. We have organizations that come and say, i have resources, i have talent. I have people who care. I want to engage in school, not just the regular teachers, we love our teachers, but not just the credential kind of learning. Adults with talent that want to invest in the next generation. I have to tell you, i have never met a parent who does not care about their kids. One thing i want to say about l. A. County, kids in probation, that is at an alltime low. Why is that . We have better attendance. We try to eliminate the dropout factory. We still have a long way to go. But we are conscious about the preservation prevention strategy. If we can keep you in school, we absolutely change our neighborhoods. If we can figure out a way to work with our committee colleges, work with the afterschool partners, we are building that support system around you that is helping you achieve what you are. Our parents want successful and supportive schools. I have to tell you, our afterschool folks, they are relentless in investing in the young people. I just think about it as a critical, it is a musthave. It is a musthave because it helps our kids we have 180 days of schooling. We all know we need to do more. Those afterschool experiences, whatever they are, however they come to your school, they always pay off. Bonnie thank you. Heidi oregon, obviously l. A. Ferent from california. , as superintendent of the year obviously you know the importance of parental involvement. In l. A. , we were are lucky because we have l. A. s best. We have afterschool allstars focused on middle schools. We take the kid all the way through. In your experience in oregon, tell us a little bit about what the best afterschool providers in oregon are doing right for elementary schools, middle, and pick up on the point that monica made. While we are all, especially some of the state leaders here support trying to get more funding from state, together getting more from federal. It leverages a lot of private dollars. Monica talked about the local partners. Can you address what illuminates the best of what is working. Afterschool in oregon . One of the most positive aspects is it gives all parents something to celebrate with her children. We see parents rallying around a child. If you have a kid who has not shown a passion, how do you wrap around and support that child . After school allows every child to explore and interest. Every child to develop a passion and loop the family in. The best programs offer courses for the parents. We offer ged classes and english and spanish classes in the community and many of the schools throughout oregon do that as well. That gives families the opportunity to Learn Together and show that learning is a forever process, not just a school time activity and really , allows parents to feel like they are modeling positive behaviors for their kids. All of those factors combined give us a more educated citizenry in a community. They give us an opportunity for informal