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Program Evaluation
LA’s BEST has more longitudinal data tracking its students than any program of its kind.
Click here for a one-page summary of more than two decades of results.
UCLA/CRESST study showed LA's BEST influenced student success into middle school. Click here for a review of the findings. Click here for the executive summary.
What We’ve Learned: A Summary of Recent Reports for LA’s BEST by UCLA-CRESST.
Drop-Out Study UCLA/CRESST found that LA’s BEST students are 20% less likely to drop-out of school.
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Replication Manual
LA's BEST was pleased to be selected by World Hunger Year (WHY) as the most worthy after school program for which to create a replication manual. Through the efforts of two VISTA volunteers who worked throughout 1997-98, the LA's BEST Replication Manual was created. The program and manual were presented January 13, 1999 by WHY and the USDA in Washington D.C. as part of a day-long workshop called "Innovative Solutions To End Hunger Through Self Reliance: The Replication of Model Programs." Rather than a true replication model, LA's BEST sees its programs as a model for incubation, assuring that the vibrancy of what makes it distinctive comes from local adaptation.