Purpose of Funding

1. provide opportunities for academic enrichment, including providing tutorial services to help students, particularly students who attend low-performing schools, to meet State and local student academic achievement standards in core academic subjects such as reading and mathematics;
2. 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, that are designed to reinforce and complement the regular academic program of participating students; and
3. offer families of students served by community learning centers opportunities for literacy and related educational development.

Eligible Applicants

Any public or private organization who meets the eligibility requirements can apply for 21st CCLC funding. This includes public school districts, BOCES, charter schools, private schools, nonprofit agencies, city or county government agencies, faith-based organizations, institutions of higher education, and for-profit corporations. For this RFP, private schools and charter schools are considered to be local education agencies.

Grants will be awarded only to eligible applicants that propose to serve students who primarily attend:

1. schools eligible for schoolwide programs under Title I, Section 1114 of the No Child Left Behind Act, and the families of these students, or
2. schools with at least 40 percent of its students eligible for free or reduced priced lunch. (In New York City it is required that 40 percent of a school’s students be eligible for free lunch.); and the families of these students.

Funding

Project Period

Questions and Answers

Due Date and Submission

Date Posted

October 12, 2012