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Funds
available for out-of-school programs
Applications for the 6th round of 21st Century Community
Learning Center grants will be available online beginning Jan.
11. The deadline to apply is Feb. 28.
These grants are designed to strengthen after-school, Saturday
and summer programs that support student learning and
development and help students meet performance standards in core
academic subjects such as reading and mathematics. The grants
help organizations provide activities that complement or enrich
regular academic programs for students attending high-poverty
schools or schools identified for school improvement.
The grants will go to sponsors who submit plans for
out-of-school-time programs designed to provide expanded student
learning opportunities as outlined in Title IV, Part B. The
South Dakota Department of Education will award approximately
six grants. In order to qualify for the grants, the applicant
must serve school districts in which 40 percent or more of the
students qualify for free and reduced meals. The grants range
from $50,000 to $150,000 per year for five years.
Authorized under Title IV, Part B, of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left
Behind Act of 2001, the law’s specific purposes are to:
- Provide opportunities for academic enrichment, including
tutorial services, to help students (particularly students
in high-poverty areas) meet state and local student
performance standards in core academic subjects such as
reading and mathematics;
- Offer students a broad array of additional services,
programs and activities such as youth development
activities; drug and violence prevention programs;
counseling programs; art, music and recreation programs;
technology education programs and character education
programs, designed to reinforce and complement participating
students’ regular academic programs; and
- Offer literacy and related educational development
opportunities to the families of students served by
community learning centers.
Applications will be available Jan. 11 at
http://doe.sd.gov/oess/21cent/appprocess.asp. Applicants
must submit the original and four copies of the application. To
be eligible for the grants, the applications must be received or
postmarked by Feb. 22, 2008.
For more information, contact Sue Burgard, Department of
Education, at (605) 773-5238 or
sue.burgard@state.sd.us.
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