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Shorefront YM-YWHA-sponsored after-school program at PS 225 in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn is featured in The New York Times Neediest Cases. The program is supported by TASC through AmeriCorps.

Two TASC staff employees were recently honored by New York state agencies.

New York City students who attended middle school after-school programs had better attendance in ninth grade, and earned more credits, than students who did not, according to an independent analysis of students in after-school programs supported by The After-School Corporation (TASC).

The Staten Island Advance published a letter to the editor from TASC President Lucy Friedman. The letter was a response to a piece the paper published on school libraries closing at 3 PM.

A message from our partners at the Coalition for After-School Funding (CASF), learn more about how to testify at the upcoming budget hearings. Your support is needed to influence the state budget so allocations will benefit after-school programs.

Kids find scientific inquiry fascinating, but exploring science takes time. Read about how it's done in after-school in a chapter co-authored by Sylvia M. James and TASC President Lucy N. Friedman in a new publication, Afterschool Advantage: Powerful New Learning Opportunities.

Children throughout the Lower East Side celebrated Lights On Afterschool last Thursday, Oct. 18, showing their support for the programs that supervise and stimulate them each day in the hours before their parents can pick them up.

The yellow lights shining at the top of the Empire State Building on October 18, supported Lights On Afterschool, the only national rally to call attention to the importance of after-school programs, led by the Afterschool Alliance.