GADC Applies For ISBE 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant for FY2015
Published: July 11, 2014
CCLC 21st Century Community Learning Center LOI (Letter of Intent)
Greater Auburn-Gresham Development Corporation (GADC) has written Letter of Intent to apply for FY 2015 21st Century Community Learning Center (21st CCLC) grant funds. GADC will be working together with Network 11 Office from the Chicago Public Schools. Tenisha Jones, Education Director over GADC Auburn Gresham GOLD ™ programs will be working with partnering school, Clara Barton Elementary School. GADC has a strong history of partnership through the Auburn Gresham Gold community driven education schools initiative. Through this initiative, GADC lead the effort to expand the use of its school based health clinic, created by our ELEV8 communities school model program and assists Barton students in making use of Auburn Gresham school-based health clinic services. The 21st Century Community Learning Center grant will help strengthen this partnership into the future. Please contact Tenisha Jones, with any questions in regards to 21st CCLC at 773.483.3696 or email tjones@gagdc.org.
Partnering school:
- Clara Barton Elementary – 7650 South Wolcott Avenue, Chicago IL. 60620
21st CCLC summary
For more information please go to: http://www.isbe.state.il.us/21cclc/html/funding.htm
Title IV, Part B of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, authorizes the establishment of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program (21st CCLC). The purpose of the program is to provide opportunities for communities to establish or expand activities in community learning centers that:
• Provide academic and enrichment opportunities for children in grades pre-kindergarten through 12 (Pk-12), particularly those students who attend high-poverty and low-performing schools, to meet State and local student academic achievement standards in core academic subjects. Core Academic Subjects: include English, reading or language arts, mathematics, science, foreign languages, civics and government, economics, arts, history, and geography;
• Offer academic, artistic, and cultural enrichment opportunities to students and their families. Student activities must be provided during non-school hours (before or after school) or periods when school is not in session (including holidays, weekends, or summer recess). Family activities, however, are not restricted to non-school hours and may take place at any time;
• Offer students a broad array of additional services, programs, and activities that are designed to reinforce and complement the regular academic programs of participating students. Activities may include youth development activities, drug and violence prevention programs, counseling programs, art, music, and recreation programs, technology education programs, and character education programs; and
• Offer literacy and related educational services to the families of participating children.
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