COLUMBIA — Most parents in South Carolina who want afterschool programs for their children are unable to get them, according to a new report by the Afterschool Alliance, a nonprofit that advocates for access to the offerings.

Findings from the group’s latest America After 3PM report , its first since the pandemic, show that 78,796 kids across the state are enrolled in afterschool programs — but that another 351,724 would be if those programs were available to them.

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