Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson recently visited John F. Kennedy High School in Sacramento to promote afterschool education and demonstrate support for legislation that would add $73 million a year for these important programs. Assembly Bill (AB) 2663 by Assemblyman Jim Cooper, D-Elk Grove, would add $73 million and an ongoing cost of living adjustment for afterschool programs which have been flat for years despite rising costs and increased demand. “As a classroom teacher, coach, legislator, and parent, I know that education is a daylong, year-round endeavor. Students simply cannot stop spending their time constructively when school’s out,” Torlakson said. “Learning doesn’t start when the bell rings and end at the schoolyard gate.” AB 2663 is currently in the suspense file in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.