“I love Afterschool Because” letters from Silver Hills Elementary Students
Silver Hills students wrote “I love afterschool because letters” to the community
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Representative Mia Love’s Assistant Laurel Price visits CEP program April 26
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 visited every class, interacting for 1.5 hours with students and teachers.
KUTV news – Federal budget cuts could end after-school programs
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 […]
Fox 13 News – President Trump proposes slashing after school, anti-poverty programs
Click here to read the full article 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 […]
Salt Lake Tribune – Here’s how President Trump’s proposed budget hikes and spending cuts might affect Utah
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“…..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 Valley City school programs that Peterson oversees have collectively received roughly $850,000 each year from the federal program since 2009, with the money going toward tutoring, parenting classes and juvenile-delinquency prevention workshops for the 5,000 students who participate. Without the funding, those after-school initiatives would evaporate and 350 employees, she said, would lose their jobs.
Statewide, some $2 million annually funnels through the program.
“The impact of losing these funds is devastating,” Peterson warned…..”
CEP/Dry Creek Charity Collaboration continues third year 2017
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. Promoting Afterschool
Valley Jr. High – new banner mounted on front of the school and second banner inside the front door – promoting afterschool.
Dry Creek Art Project at Farnsworth Elementary
The Farnsworth 2016 project was an art history program where students studied famous artists, and created silhouettes of the artists and themselves.
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.
Both CEP full time programs and mini grant programs are resulting in the high student outcomes.
Regular Education Teachers of over 14,900 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 10 years, 2011 through 2021.