San Diego Unified’s Primetime Program Celebrates twenty sixth Annual Lights on Afterschool

San Diego Unified School District joins hundreds of faculties and communities nationwide in celebrating the twenty sixth Annual Lights On Afterschool, a nationwide motion highlighting the important function of expanded studying packages in supporting scholar success and household well-being.

The Lights On Afterschool celebration being held at Mason Elementary School will showcase the variety of experiences accessible by means of the district’s PrimeTime afterschool packages fostering tutorial progress, creativity, management, and wellness—starting from STEM and artwork initiatives to bodily health, management growth, and social-emotional studying. Students, dad and mom, district leaders, and group companions—together with representatives from the Office of Congresswoman Sara Jacobs and the San Diego County Office of Education—attended the occasion to indicate their assist for sustained funding in afterschool packages.

Afterschool packages like PrimeTime create secure, partaking areas the place college students can discover their pursuits, construct confidence, and join with caring adults. They bridge the hole between the college day and residential, and so they strengthen our whole group by serving to college students thrive each academically and emotionally.

Serving greater than 16,000 college students throughout 144 elementary, center, and UTK–8 faculties, PrimeTime is without doubt one of the largest and most profitable expanded studying initiatives in California. The program eliminates monetary obstacles by providing no-cost before- and after-school packages for households.

Since the 2022–23 faculty yr, when California started its $4 billion annual funding in expanded studying, San Diego Unified has expanded PrimeTime to 27 new faculties, almost doubling participation and broadening entry to high-quality enrichment for working households.