Universal programs and unintended divisions A case study of after-school program legislation

Universal programs and unintended divisions

A case study of after-school program legislation

Garey

Anita Ilta

Garey, Anita Ilta

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University of California, Berkeley

Center for Working Families

University of California, Berkeley. Center for Working Families

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Berkeley, CA Center for Working Families, University of California, Berkeley 2001 2001 monographic

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Center for Working Families, University of California, Berkeley

2001

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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.

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.

Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper No. 29

Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper

No. 29

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