BTS Bay Area, BTS Chicago, BTS National and the CA RTC are pleased to announce: A Virtual Conversation on the Crisis in Youth Sports That is Accelerating Educational Inequities in K-12 Education. Will Covid kill school based athletic programs and its implications to K-12 Education?
Our esteemed panel to discuss how the defunding and decline of school based athletics is hurting youth in our most disadvantaged communities and impacting educational equity of K-12 education. This trend is being accelerated and magnified by the COVID-19 crisis and the rise of private club athletic programs and has been profiled in the NY Times Article: “The Lack of Youth Sports is a Crisis” Learn of the importance of the work that BTS programs are undertaking to address this issue.
Clips from the panel discussion will be available soon.