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Community Education reports enrollment shifts as pandemic-era grants expire
Summary
The district’s Community Education division described summer-academy, Kids Express before‑and‑after care and preschool operations, noting declines in some program enrollments after a $6 million stabilization grant expired and outlining capacity and registration figures.
Chandler Unified’s Community Education director, Scott Vandermillen, on Tuesday reviewed the department’s five divisions—Summer Academy, sports and enrichment, facility rentals, early childhood (Little Explorers and preschool/pre‑K) and Kids Express before‑and‑after care—and presented enrollment and financial trends.
Vandermillen said Kids Express operates at 26 elementary campuses, serves kindergarten through sixth grade and runs roughly 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.; four sites provide busing to Kids Express locations. He said spring intersession camps recently served 606 children across three sites and that one recent trip included 506 students to the Phoenix…
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