Youth organizations could fill huge school-year gaps

Joyful squeals and shouts drift out across Parking Lot J at Golden West College in Huntington Beach.
A small group of children climb and jumpon a jungle gym outside the building that houses the Boys & Girls Clubs of Huntington Valley on the otherwise empty college campus. And while those kids play outdoors, others are inside, doing different activities in various rooms.
These groups of kids — “cohorts” of no more than 12 children — all play and learn at health-appropr