Providing high quality out-of-school-time and after school community events for West Valley City families and students, resulting in increased opportunities for learning.
Jessa Reed representing Senator Orin Hatch visited CEP afterschool summer programs June 8 at 3 of our 23 partner schools – Hunter High, Stansbury Elementary and Kennedy Jr. High. Jessa spent 5 hours learning about afterschool programs in West Valley City. She learned about the importance of […]
Silver Hills students wrote “I love afterschool because letters” to the community
Robert Frost Elementary Afterschool Program coordinators invited Congressional Representative Mia Love to visit their program. Laurel Price, Rep. Love’s District Director, visited on April 26. She listened to stories from parents and students about the benefits the program has on their lives and education. Ms. Price […]
Click here to watch the video (KUTV) For hundreds of students at Monroe Elementary in West Valley City, the final bell doesn’t signal the end of the school day. Almost a third of Monroe’s 650 students participate in the school’s 35 extracurricular activities, which include […]
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SALT LAKE CITY — Among the programs President Donald Trump’s new budget blueprint would slash is funding for after school programs for low income students throughout Utah.
“I was devastated. How can you abandon the future of children in America?” said Margaret Peterson, Executive Director of the Community Education Partnership in West Valley City.
Peterson’s agency runs after school programs in 19 schools in West Valley City, serving 5,000 students this year.
“It would mean 5,000 kids this year would lose academic tutoring,” Peterson said, adding that 300 employees would lose part-time jobs, and the only non-profit after school program in the city would be gone.
Click here to read the full article “…..Margaret Peterson, who directs after-school programming for 23 public schools in West Valley City, cringes at the president’s call to kill the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program, which supports academic enrichment for primarily low-income students. The West […]
Dry Creek Partnership – Mini Grant Program 2015 – 11 applications awarded totaling $17,500 2016 – 13 applications awarded totaling $17,000 2017 – 8 applications awarded totaling $23,875
Valley Jr. High – new banner mounted on front of the school and second banner inside the front door – promoting afterschool.
CEP is a 501(c)3 non profit corporation dedicated to provide before and after school educational opportunities for children, youth, and families in West Valley City, Utah.
Regular Education Teachers of over 13,400 Students Participating 30 days or more in CEP 21st Century Grant Afterschool Programs at 19 Granite District Schools in West Valley City report substantial and consistent improvement during the day over 8 years, 2011 through 2018. CEP provides other grant programs at 5 additional District schools in West Valley City for over 1,000 students.
