The Costs of Out-of-School-Time Programs: A Review of the Available Evidence
Contributing Organization(s): Public/Private Ventures
Author(s)/Creator(s): Christianne Lind; Nanette Relave; Sharon Deich; Jean Grossman; Andrew Gersick
Publishing Date: 2006-05-01
Issue Areas: Children and Youth
Ownership/Rights Info: Copyright 2006 Public/Private Ventures and The Finance Project. All rights reserved.
Commissioned by The Wallace Foundation and written in collaboration with The Finance Project, this report reviews a variety of studies conducted since 1993 in an attempt to gain a broad sense of what it costs to run out-of-school-time programs. Among the report's findings: there is a lack of up-to-date information about program costs; researchers and practitioners do not have a standard methodology for estimating costs; selected cost studies suggest wide variation across programs -- from $449 to $7160 per child per year; much of this variation is attributable to differences in sample size, how costs are calculated and whether in-kind resources are taken into account; and not much is known about the cost implications of investments to improve the quality of out-of-school-time programs. This report is part of a larger study being conducted by P/PV and The Finance Project (with support from The Wallace Foundation) to asses the costs of out-of-school-time programs. A second report, including a comprehensive guide to the costs of various types of programs, will be published in 2007.
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Type/Format: Policy Brief
Language code: English
Type/Format: Policy Brief
Language code: English
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