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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Bill No: SCR 93
Author: DeSaulnier (D), et al
Amended: 6/15/10
Vote: 21
SENATE FLOOR : 28-1, 4/8/10
AYES: Aanestad, Calderon, Cedillo, Corbett, Correa, Cox,
Denham, DeSaulnier, Ducheny, Hancock, Huff, Kehoe, Leno,
Liu, Lowenthal, Negrete McLeod, Oropeza, Padilla, Pavley,
Price, Romero, Runner, Simitian, Steinberg, Wolk, Wright,
Wyland, Yee
NOES: Ashburn
NO VOTE RECORDED: Alquist, Cogdill, Dutton, Florez,
Harman, Hollingsworth, Maldonado, Strickland, Walters,
Wiggins
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : Read and adopted, 6/28/10
SUBJECT : Summer Learning and Wellness Month
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This resolution designates July 2010 as Summer
Learning and Wellness Month.
Assembly Amendments made technical and clarifying changes.
ANALYSIS : This resolution states the following:
1. A child's need for meaningful learning and enrichment
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experiences does not end in June when the school doors
close for summer vacation, these needs continue into and
through the summer months. Many of these needs are not
being met in neighborhoods where poverty is high.
2. All children need summer learning opportunities in order
to stay on course academically. Without ongoing summer
opportunities to reinforce and learn skills, children,
especially children in low-income communities, may fall
behind dramatically in many areas of academic
achievement.
3. The debilitating effect of an absence of summer learning
and enrichment is often referred to as "the summer
slide." The summer slide is characterized by measurable
learning loss that includes reading loss and significant
achievement gaps between children with lower and higher
income parents.
4. The summer slide affects children from low-income
families disproportionately. Unequal summer learning
opportunities during elementary school years are
responsible for about two-thirds of the ninth-grade
achievement gap between youths with lower and higher
income parents. As a result, youths with low-income
parents are less likely to graduate from high school or
enter college.
5. While parents in California consistently cite summer as
the most difficult time to ensure that their children
have productive things to do, the supply of low-cost
summer programs in California is extremely limited
relative to the number of children with low-income
parents.
6. Summer school is currently the largest provider of
summer programming in California, but budget cuts have
had a devastating effect on program availability.
7. Many children with low-income parents lose access to
healthy school meals and organized physical activity
during the summer months.
8. In California, nearly one-third (32 percent) of 5th
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graders are overweight. Some studies indicate that
children gain weight more rapidly when they are out of
school for summer. Summer weight gains are especially
large for African American and Hispanic children.
9. The national Summer Learning Day on June 21 celebrates
how public and private summer programs send young people
back to school ready to learn, support families, and
help keep children safe and healthy.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 6/29/10)
Partnership for Children and Youth
Central Valley Afterschool Foundation
Fresno County Office of Education
PQ:nl 6/29/10 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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