How one woman is taking an after-school program to the big leagues

Schoolteacher Julie Kennedy was working at an elementary school in Washington in the early 1990s when she noticed time and again that a number of her fifth-grade girls were hanging out on street corners after school. A soccer player, Ms. Kennedy invited them to join her for a match or two in the hours following class. This is how DC Scores, an after-school program in Washington, got its start.