650 students in grades 4-8 who reside in the St. Louis Enterprise Community, the most impoverished region in the metropolitan area. The after-school programs offer academic acceleration, enrichment and recreation activities; and the Saturday academy focuses on science, math, and technology. La Familiar Community Learning Center is an after- school program designed to meet the academic, developmental, cultural and recreational needs of students of the Oakland Charter Academy in the heart of the San Antonio-Fruitvale neighborhoods of East Oakland, CA. The Center, which services 200 primarily Latino students, operates each weekday from 2:45 through 5:45 p.m. throughout the school year and offers two 6-week programs in the summer. The Lighthouse Project serves Bayfield, WI, a remote district with a geographic area of 250 square miles which encompass the Red Cliff Indian Reservation. A high percentage of the students have experienced low academic skills, absenteeism, conduct infractions, cultural and personal isolation, alcohol/drug use and are members of single parent families. One objective of the program is to connect skill competencies developed through education to vocations and the world of productive work. CRITERIA FOR SELECTING PROPOSALS: The criteria for selecting proposals under this program include the extent of need for the project, quality of project design, management plan, project and evaluation plan, and adequacy of the resources.
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