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Community education report highlights summer learning, bike programs and new tech hub
Summary
District staff presented Community Education's scope: 636 classes countywide, early childhood screenings, a Summer Learning Academy with learning gains and nutrition services, All Kids Bike rollout, Safe Routes partnerships and a new tech hub serving students and adults free through grants.
Melanie, the district's Community Education director, presented a comprehensive update on Community Education programs and partnerships, describing enrollment, facility usage, targeted funding and several new or expanded initiatives.
Enrollment and programming: Community Education distributed three catalogs to about 23,000 Itasca County residents and offered roughly 636 classes systemwide in 2023'24, producing about 20,500 individual "opportunities" (a duplicated-count measure that counts each enrollment). Grand Rapids-specific figures included about 195 adult opportunities with 4,542 adult participants and about 197 youth opportunities with roughly 10,200 youth participants. The program reported serving about 14,000 of the 20,500 opportunities in the Grand Rapids district.
Facility use and revenue: Community Education reported 217 distinct groups used district facilities after hours and that invoicing for facility use produced $44,424 in revenue for the district general fund in fiscal…
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