Description
The purpose of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (CCLC) program is to provide funds for communities to establish or expand activities in community learning centers that
- provide opportunities for academic enrichment, including providing tutorial services to help students, particularly students who attend low-performing schools, to meet the challenging state academic standards;
- offer students a broad array of additional services, programs, and activities, such as youth development activities; service learning, nutrition and health education; drug and violence prevention programs; counseling programs; arts, music, physical fitness, and wellness programs; technology education programs; financial literacy programs; environmental literacy programs; mathematics, science, career, and technology programs; internship or apprenticeship programs; and other ties to an in-demand industry sector or occupation for high school students that are designed to reinforce and complement the regular academic program of participating students; and
- offer families of students served by such centers opportunities for active and meaningful engagement in their children’s education, including opportunities for literacy and related educational development.
Program Office
Student Intervention Services
Eligible Applicants
School districts, community-based organizations, Indian tribe or tribal organization, faith-based organizations and other public or private entities.
All applicants must meet the criteria associated with a joint applicant to be considered for funding.
A joint applicant is at least two organizations that together submit a single application proposing to serve a school in an eligible school attendance area in which not less than 40 percent of the children are from low-income families, or not less than 40 percent of the children enrolled in the school are from such families. At least one of the organizations must be a school or district, and the other organization must be an entity other than a school or district.
Total Funding Available
$3,000,000–$5,000,000
Funding Detail
Approximately 10–15 subgrants; Award amounts will be determined based on the type of applicant and the number of students to be served.
Project Term
August 1, 2023, through July 31, 2027 (maximum of four years)
Application Due Date
March 6, 2023
Technical Assistance Session
The SCDE’s Office of Student Intervention Services (OSIS) provided a pre-application technical assistance webinar on January 10, 2023. Please contact
Joyce Patterson for a link to the recording. Download the
TA Session Presentation Handout and the
Frequently Asked Questions from Technical Assistance Session (PDF, 25kb - 1/23/23).
Documents
Request for Proposals (DOCX, 2.41mb -
Revised 1/19/23)
Application Link
Budget Forecast and Narrative Template (XLSX, 18 kb - 12/9/22)
Timeline of Activities Template (DOCX, 15kb - 12/9/22)
Project Weekly Schedule Template (DOCX, 14kb - 12/9/22)
Multi-Year Program Design and Performance Form Template (DOCX, 17kb - 12/9/22)
Program Web Page
21st Century Community Learning Centers Program
