The Indiana Department of Education announced today the Boys & Girls Clubs of St. Joseph County, along with applicant partners, as the recipient of a historic $7.7 million grant.
Created by House Act 1008, the purpose of the Student Learning Recovery Grant Program and Fund is to accelerate learning to support students across all grades, with a focus on partnerships between community-based organizations and schools.
For the first time, the Club will have the resources to provide consistent, evidence-based, and data-driven afterschool programming across three major school systems in the county, including School City of Mishawaka, South Bend Community School Corporation and Career and Success Academy. The program will be offered to students free of charge.
The program will focus on four key areas: literacy, math fluency, social and emotional learning, and college and workforce readiness.
Programming specialists from Robinson Community Learning Center, Riverbend Math, MindfulU, Rise Entrepreneurship, LOGAN, and Partnership for Children will partner with the Boys & Girls Clubs to develop curriculum specific to this initiative.
The Club will hire more than 60 youth development professionals to facilitate STRIVE programming across the 23 sites. The growth also opens up the door for increased community and volunteer engagement across the organization and respective to each school, site, and neighborhood.
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So at a time when our public schools are whining about being underfunded, the INDOE is giving millions of dollars away to a nonprofit.
While I think this nonprofit will do a better job and give more bang for the buck than the schools will, it still seems like something that should not be happening.
Seems to me like 5 Star Life ought to be getting a chunk of this money as well and they have proven worth. Look how much money listeners to this radio station have donated out of their after tax monies! This is taxpayer money no matter where it goes. Read the Road to Serfdom, we’re on that Highway to Hell.