Costs of Summer Programming

This chapter examines the costs of providing a particular kind of summer programming: programs that operate at scale (which we define as 1,000 or more students) with a focus on academics that are delivered primarily to disadvantaged children in grades K—8. The goal is to identify both the monetary a...

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Published inMaking Summer Count p. 37
Main Authors JENNIFER SLOAN MCCOMBS, CATHERINE H. AUGUSTINE, HEATHER L. SCHWARTZ, SUSAN J. BODILLY, BRIAN MCINNIS, DAHLIA S. LICHTER, AMANDA BROWN CROSS
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LanguageEnglish
Published RAND Corporation 13.06.2011
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Academic learning
Accountancy
Administrative expenses
Applied psychology
Applied sciences
Behavioral sciences
Business
Business expenses
Business operations
Cognitive processes
Cognitive psychology
Commerce
Committed fixed costs
Cost estimates
Economic disciplines
Economics
Education
Education politics
Educational administration
Educational finance
Educational institutions
Educational psychology
Engineering
Finance
Financial accounting
Financial economics
Fixed costs
Formal education
Funding
Learning
Psychology
Purchasing
School districts
Schools
Student costs
Summer schools
Transportation
Transportation costs
Variable costs
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Summary:This chapter examines the costs of providing a particular kind of summer programming: programs that operate at scale (which we define as 1,000 or more students) with a focus on academics that are delivered primarily to disadvantaged children in grades K—8. The goal is to identify both the monetary and in-kind costs of this type of program, which we refer to in this chapter as a “summer learning program,” to provide useful information to school districts that wish to develop these programs. To this end, we addressed four questions: What are the respective costs of externally led and school
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