Making Summer Last: Integrating Summer Programming into Core District Priorities and Operations (Rand Summer Learning)

During the school year leading up to summer 2015, summer leaders in three cities made concerted efforts to integrate their summer learning programs into the core priorities and operations of the larger school district as a strategy to increase sustainability. This report examines these efforts and their impacts. The recommendations we provide should be useful to leaders of district-led summer programs and others who support sustaining them.