Jennifer Peck, Executive Director for the Partnership for Children and Youth, wrote a blog for the Huffington Post outlining the the risks to the nation’s largest expanded learning infrastructure due to increasing cost pressures and the benefits of local investment in expanded learning programs utilizing the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF). In the blog, Peck writes, “California’s nationally-recognized after school system is at risk of crumbling without additional state funding in this year’s (state) budget. While the costs, demands, and expectations of California’s After School Education and Safety (ASES) programs have consistently increased, the funding has reminded stagnant for almost a decade.” The blog, co-written by Lillian Maldonado French, Superintendent, Mountain View Elementary School District outlines the benefit of LCFF investments in expanded learning programs. To read more, click here.