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TITLE:
Universal Programs and Unintended Divisions: A Case Study of After-School Program Legislation
AUTHOR(S):
Anita Ilta Garey
DOCUMENT TYPE: Article
Anita Garey is assistant professor of family studies and sociology at the University of Connecticut and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Working Families in 1999.
Working Paper No. 29
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ABSTRACT:
In 1999, legislation in California provided new funds for school-based after-school programs. Unlike other state-funded child care programs, these programs were not targeted to particular groups. Parents and teachers hoped that this universal approach would eliminate the existing situation in which, after sharing a classroom during the day, children joined either the targeted or private after-school programs that divided largely along lines of race-ethnicity and class. In this working paper, I describe the processes that were set in motion by legislatively-mandated program restrictions and inadequate funding – processes with served to reproduce socioeconomic and racial-ethnic divisions in school-based after-school programs.