A community learning center offers academic and youth development opportunities to students and their families when school is not in session; before school, after school, holidays, summer recess, or other out-of-school times.
The purpose of this program is to establish community learning centers that provide students with academic enrichment opportunities along with activities designed to complement students’ regular classroom academic programs during out-of-school hours.
Authorized under Title IV, Part B, of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), most recently amended by Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015, the law’s specific purposes are to: