Arkansas 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC)
Grant Information
Grant information, available to read on-line below, may also be viewed in whole as a PDF file:
Guidelines 
The Arkansas Department of Education is pleased to announce the 2007-2008 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) Grants. The grants are supported through the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. The Arkansas 21st CCLC grants will be awarded on a competitive process. Programs awarded these funds will be a five (5) year continuation funding based on annual evaluation, phasing in of local effort, and pending continuing federal allocations.
Authorized under Title IV, Part B, Sec. 4201 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, the law’s specific purposes are to:
- provide opportunities for academic enrichment, including providing tutorial services to help students (those who attend low-performing schools) meet State and local student performance standards in core academic subjects, such as reading and mathematics,
- 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
- offer families of students served by community learning centers opportunities for literacy and related educational development.
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