Title IV, Part B: 21st Century Community Learning Center (CCLC) Grants
Overview
The 21st CCLC Program is a competitive federal grant for Local Education Agencies (LEAs) and Community or Faith-Based Organizations (CFBOs) to serve students and their families attending schools with poverty levels of 40 percent or higher outside of regular school hours.
Authorized under Title IV, Part B, of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the program's specific purposes are to:
- provide opportunities for academic enrichment, including providing tutorial services to help students (particularly students in high-poverty areas and 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
Currently, Utah has over thirty 21st CCLC grants, serving over 100 individual school or community sites and over 6,000 students statewide.
Grant Application Information
Competitions are held annually. Generally the RFP is released in March, the Bidders Conference is held in April, applications are due in May, and award decisions are announced in early July. This schedule is open to change. If you are interested in being added to the e-mail list for the 21st CCLC Grant release, please complete Utah State Board of Education (USBE) 21st Century Community Learning Center (CCLC) Grant Email List Form .
Grant Profile
If your organization does not have a profile with Utah Grants, please complete the Utah Grants Information for Organizations Interested Utah State Board of Education (USBE) 21st CCLC Grant
21st CCLC Grant Competition Information and Application Documents
School Year 2024-2025
Application calendar (dates subject to change)
- ONLINE Bidders’ Conference: 4/11/24 from 9:30 am to 11:30 am
- Required Letter of Intent DUE: 4/19/24 at 11:59 pm
- Application Documents DUE in Utah Grants: 5/22/24 at 5:00 pm
- Grant Review Period: 5/22/24 to 7/05/24
- Award Notification: Week of 7/08/24
Grant Application
Bidders Conference
The Bidder's Conference is time to learn more about the 21CCLC grant and the application process. Once registration is complete you will be emailed the virtual meeting link.
21CCLC Bidder's Conference Registration 2024
(External Web Content)Google Form
(External Web Content)United Sta
(External Web Content)United Sta(PDF File)
2024 Bidder's Conference Recording
YouTube
Resources
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1964: Community Learning Center(PDF File)
Monitoring
220230911 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21CCLC) Grant Orientation 2023(Drafted
by BP)
YouTube
Monitoring Resources
21APR Reporting
21APR is the United States Department of Education’s 21st Century Community Learning Center’s (21st CCLC) data collection system. The 21APR is designed to collect, from all active 21st CCLC, descriptive information on program characteristics and services as well as performance data across a range of outcomes. In addition, one of the core purposes of the APR is to collect information on the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) performance indicators associated with the 21st CCLC program. Every program site receiving 21st CCLC funding needs to complete the reporting system. If you needed your password reset or a authorized user added, please e-mail Savannah Hunt.
21APR
(External Web Content)United States Department of Education Authorized Users Login
Evaluation Reports
Statewide Comprehensive Evaluation Efforts Plan
Statewide Comprehensive Evaluation Efforts Plan
This report provides an overview of the current evaluation efforts for the grant program
Afterschool Program Quality Improvement in Utah: Development of a Program Quality Framework
This report includes information from two studies of afterschool program quality in Utah, based on Senate Bill (S.B.) 125, 2017 General Session, focusing on current afterschool program quality improvement practices and recommendations for future quality improvement efforts. S.B. 125 required the Utah State Board of Education to establish rules for high quality afterschool program standards.
Afterschool Program Quality Improvement in Utah Report
(External Web Content)University of Utah, Utah Education Policy Center
21st Century Community Learning Center (CCLC): Services and Innovative Practices in Utah 2016-2017
This report include an evaluation of the 21st CCLC program sites. The dual purposes of the evaluation were to examine current 21st CCLC program offerings and identify 21st CCLC sites with exemplary and innovative program practices.
21st Century Community Learning Centers Services and Innovative Practices in Utah
(External Web Content)University of Utah, Utah Education Policy Center
Resources
21st Century Community Learning Centers
(External Web Content)21st Century Community Learning Centers Non-Regulatory Guidance
(External Web Content)United States Department of Education
The National Center for Quality Afterschool(External Web Content)
Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL)
Utah Afterschool Network (UAN)(External Web Content)
School Fees and After School Programs
(External Web Content)YouTube
21st CCLC Career Pathways Grant
The Utah 21st CCLC Out‐of‐School Time (UOST) Career Pathways Collaboration project is designed to create connections between out of school time programs and Career and Technical Education (CTE) career pathways leading to students receiving out of school time programming aligned with the school day pathway training. USBE, including the ESEA Federal Programs and Related State Initiatives (ERSI) and CTE teams, Utah Afterschool Network, Certiport, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), are collaborating to build a bridge between CTE and out of school time programs. This project is funded through supplemental 21s CCLC funding through the Department of Education.
Below are current participating grantees:
- Boys and Girls Club of Northern Utah (with support of Box Elder School District)
- City of South Salt Lake (with the support of Granite School District)
- Davis School District
- Provo School District
- Salt Lake County Youth Services (with the support of Granite School District)
- San Juan Foundation (with the support of San Juan School District)
- University of Utah (with the support of Granite School District)
- 21APR State Education Agencies (SEA) Data Guide
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