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District to pilot Boys & Girls Club 'Be Great Academy' after-school program at two schools as PERC afternoons end
Summary
District staff proposed replacing the district-run PERC after-school program with a Boys & Girls Club-operated Be Great Academy at Millwood and Alice Drive Elementary due to longstanding deficits; the board requested data and a plan to expand beyond the pilot year.
At the April 7 Sumter School District board meeting, district staff proposed replacing the afternoon PERC (pre-K and early-childhood) after-school offering with the Boys & Girls Club-run Be Great Academy (BGA) at Millwood and Alice Drive Elementary schools for the 2025–26 school year. Administrators said the change is proposed because the district cannot sustain PERC’s longstanding operating deficits.
Veron Davis, executive director of student support services, introduced the proposal and said the district is not able to “financially sustain the program” for full-day 3/4-year-old classes at Alice Drive and Millwood. Cheryl Creel Ray, director of early childhood, presented financial and enrollment details: the PERC program has shown deficits dating to February 2015 with the largest single-year deficit noted as $231,798.85…
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