Boston’s After-School for All Partnership, lead by the Boston Foundation and Massachusetts 2020, is the largest public-private partnership devoted to children in Boston’s history. This mid-term report examines accomplishments to date and what the partnership has learned about opportunities and challenges of expansion at school-based after-school programs. Researchers found that a strategy to fund the expansion of existing high-quality school-based programs resulted in a 30% reduction in cost per child without affecting the quality of programs. The programs chosen for expansion through the "School Sites Initiative" increased the number of students they served on average by 53%.

Read the executive summary or the full report, "Opening Doors for Boston's Children: Lessons Learned in Expanding School-Based After-School Programs," October, 2004.

For more Education data, please visit the Boston Indicators Report 2002 Education home page.