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The Iowa Afterschool Alliance seeks to develop strong statewide systems of support for high-quality, affordable, and accessible before school, after school, and summer programs.
The Summer Ladders program directly impacts the phenomenon known as the “summer slide,” as well as income-based achievement gaps. Research on the summer slide has indicated that some youth lose over a month’s worth of school-year learning over the summer. What’s more, studies have concluded “that income-based reading gaps grew over the summer, given that middle class students tended to show improvement in reading skills while lower-income students tended to experience loss .” AmeriCorps members serve at diverse host sites across the state of Iowa to develop and facilitate high quality activities to mitigate the impacts of the summer slide.