21st Century Community Learning Centers
Description of Program:
The 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program is to
establish or expand community learning centers that provide students
with academic enrichment opportunities along with activities
designed to complement the students’ regular academic program.
Community learning centers must also offer families of these
students literacy and related educational development. Centers –
which can be located in public elementary or secondary schools or
other similarly accessible facilities – provide a range of
high-quality services to support student learning and development,
including tutoring and mentoring, homework help, academic enrichment
(such as hands-on science or technology programs), and community
service opportunities, as well as music, arts, sports and cultural
activities. Centers must provide academic enrichment activities to
students that attend high-poverty or Title 1 school-wide schools to
help them meet state and local standards in core subjects especially
reading, and mathematics. At the same time, centers help working
parents by providing a safe environment for students when school is
not in session.
Eligibility:
Eligible applicants are those who primarily serve students and
the families of the students of high poverty schools or schools that
are eligible for school-wide Title 1 programs. 21st Century
Community Learning Centers Program must be located in public school
facilities or in facilities that are at least as available and
accessible to the students to be served as if the program were
located in a public elementary, middle, or secondary school.
Applicants must demonstrate that they meet the statutory program
requirements of serving students from schools eligible for
school-wide Title I programs or schools with 40% or greater poverty
based upon free and reduced lunch as determined using verified
information.
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