Newton Summer Adventure is a children's summer school program directed by the for-profit Newton Learning, a division of Edison Schools. Since the program's start in Kansas City, Missouri, in the year 2000 with an enrollment of about 3000 students, Summer Adventure has greatly expanded in Missouri, and the state's student enrollment in the program reached 50,000 in the summer of 2005. Summer Adventure was offered in eleven other states in that same year.
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