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Congress distributed the first grants for community learning centers in 1998. [7] Originally, grants lasted three years. Most centers held only academic programs, although a few held recreational programs as well. The early budget was about $40 million. [8] In 2001, The U.S. Congress expanded the 21st Century program through the No Child Left ...
The program was initially started with two students from Champion Middle School (an urban public school located next to a governmental housing project) but soon expanded to a full youth orchestra. [5] For her work with Urban Strings, Ms. Willis received awards from the Columbus Symphony and the Columbus Foundation. [6] [7] [4] [8] [9]
The YMCA Youth and Government program was established in 1936 in New York by Clement A. Duran, then the Boys Work Secretary for the Albany YMCA. [5] The program motto, “Democracy must be learned by each generation,” was taken from a quote by Earle T. Hawkins, the founder of the Maryland Youth and Government program.
Dozens of Head Start programs, which provide child care and preschool education to low-income children, have been unable to access previously approved federal funding, putting some programs at ...
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(The Center Square) – Gov. Brian Kemp is proposing an additional $50 million for school safety grants. The new funding would bring the total for the grants to $159 million, with each school ...
The institution's origin dates to 1850, when a state senator attempted to have a report made of the number of "imbecile youth" in Ohio, and how they could be supported and educated. In 1853, senator-elect Norton Strange Townshend pursued the matter again. He had studied medicine in Paris, and had seen how they cared for developmentally-disabled ...
Meals on Wheels America spokesperson Jenny Young said it was unclear how the directive would impact their programs given that the law governing grants for senior nutrition programs sends funding ...