21CCLC-Community Learning Center

overview 2011-12

With grant ($) support from the federal Department of Education through the Nebraska Department of Education, Logan View Public Schools is able to offer a supplemental before- and after-school academic enrichment program for qualifying students in grades K-6.

Local education agencies (schools) receiving 21st Century Community Learning Centers grant funding* follow 21CCLC program guidelines concerning students and activities.

ACTIVITIES

Primarily, program activities are designed to help students meet state and local performance standards in the core academic subjects of reading and math.
Secondarily, the program helps students with their study skills and the satisfactory completion of homework.
Finally, the program offers physical education and health enrichment activities and other periodic activities that supplement students' regular academic programs.

STUDENTS

The school must give placement preference to students whose performance on academic assessments does not satisfy state and local standards in the core academic subjects of reading and math.
The school must give placement preference to students who live in households that satisfy federal guidelines for other types of financial family assistance.
Optimally, the program has the capacity to serve 65 students.

QUALIFYING FOR PLACEMENT

Families wanting placement for their student(s) are asked to complete a simple information form that along with students' school records permits the program director to identify those students whose characteristics qualify them for community (outside of school) learning center participation.
Completing the form does not mean a student will qualify for participation during the 2010-11 school year.**

KEEPING THAT PLACEMENT

Qualifying students are generally expected to participate in after-school activities a minimum of three days out of five in order to keep their 21CCLC placement.
The same respectful, cooperative student behavior expected at school is expected at 21CCLC to keep placement.
The families of qualifying students are expected to be involved in their students' academic progress, especially the satisfactory completion of homework and participation in the district’s formal parent teacher conference program and other suggested parent meetings.

On days school is in session, the 21CCLC program operates from the Hooper elementary campus at 400 W Maple before school from 6:30 – 8 AM and after school from dismissal times to no later than 5:45 PM.
Formal activities will end at 5:15 PM, and student supervision for families will not extend beyond 5:45 PM.

Bus transportation from the Logan View campus to Hooper for after-school activities is provided by the district.
Bus transportation to school bus stops in the communities of Nickerson (park), Winslow (post office) and Uehling (St. Paul’s Lutheran Church) will leave from Hooper at 5:15 PM.
Parents/guardians are responsible for all other transportation arrangements.
Formal activities will end at 5:15 PM, and Hooper student supervision for all families will not extend beyond 5:45 PM.

The 21CCLC program is under the direction of Elementary Principal Kevin Kraus. Call the Elementary Office at 654-3315 or 654-3317 ext. 141 for additional information about program guidelines.

* 21CCLC grant awards are competitive. Not all applicants are funded, and the per capita amount awarded is in mathematical relationship to the student characteristics that identify a local education agency as eligible for 21CCLC application. The grant award provides Logan View with funds for a period of 5 years, but at successively lower amounts in years 4-5. Logan View Public Schools became a 21st Century Community Learning Center-affiliate in 2007 and is now in year 5 of 5.

**Adherence to program guidelines are necessary because the school must file annual performance reports (showing individual student progress) and, further, demonstrate involvement by families of participating children and support from the community in the larger processes of learning and citizenship. Qualifying students must demonstrate academic and financial need to participate in 21CCLC.