Summer Matters Campaign Unveils New Reports Linking Summer Learning to Local Control Funding Formula Priorities

November 19, 2013

Summer Matters
Published: November 19, 2013

As school district leaders prepare to make local control funding formula decisions, the Summer Matters campaign today released three new reports demonstrating that summer learning programs are essential to school districts’ ability to meet time-sensitive priorities for Common Core implementation, social-emotional growth, and teacher and staff development.

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As school districts are budgeting and planning for summer 2014, the Summer Matters campaign is barnstorming the state, delivering thousands of the new reports to superintendents and school district leaders and urging them to use local control funding formula dollars to invest in summer learning.

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