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Actually, if anyone reading this has any ideas of how to accomplish the goal of getting kids to come in outside of school hours, I'd love to hear it. I promise I will take any serious ideas to my principal.

Understand though that the suggestion of "just teach them during school hours" won't help. NCLB clearly states that the school must offer EXTRA and ADDITIONAL hours over and beyond the normal school core day. And just offering is not enough, we must show that the kids are coming and using the federal funds. Having 10 teachers paid at over $40 an hour to work with a few kids does not show good stewardship of fed funds and it will come back to bite sooner or later.

"Having 10 teachers paid at over $40 an hour to work with a few kids does not show good stewardship of fed funds"

And just when did the government start concerning itself with being good stewards of our hard-earned money? I must have missed that headline.

We moved to a new school district right before my daughter was entering 2nd grade. Her new teacher placed her in the 2 hour after school tutoring program because my daughter could not read or barely write.
It took awhile to realize she had been memorizing the little books in 1st grade and snuck through the cracks.
The after school program was a nightmare. I was getting notes home telling me to make sure she had books to read and her homework with her so she would not be bored. Now remember this is a little girl who couldn't read at all. She was going from her classroom straight to the tutoring room.
I had been told she would be getting some one on one tutoring. I later found out that the room had one and if they were lucky 2 teachers with a classroom full of different aged children. Basically it was like detention.
On top of that I was working one on one with my daughter when when I picked her up from school.
That was about 9 years ago so things might be different now with the programs. It didn't help my daughter at all.
Another problem I found when looking back over my daughters schooling (K-2) were the amount of subs she had. At first I didn't think much about it because I assumed they had college degrees. I found out one day some of her classmates moms were subbing plus who knows who else.
On the day I pulled my daughter out to homeschool her she wanted to say good bye to her teacher and so we walked down to her classroom. No teacher there. Just another sub.
I am not saying all subs are bad but there are alot that are not trained to deal with a classroom and when the teacher is gone so much it is easy for children to start falling through the cracks.
Just my experience with AR schools.