Summer learning programs are too expensive for many of Mississippi’s kids
“The lack of affordable summer learning programs is troubling in Mississippi, where nearly 30 percent of children live in poverty and opportunities for summer learning vary greatly. Low-income students are especially at risk of the ‘summer slide,’ or losing valuable progress in academics, due to a lack of education programming during summer vacation. Research shows low-income youth lose up to three months of reading achievement and two months of math achievement during this time out of school. Higher-income youth, by contrast, often make small gains in achievement over the summer.”