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Community Learning Centers report: enrollment growing, scholarship budget under pressure

Sioux Falls School Board (District 49-5) · December 9, 2025
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District staff reported growth in after-school programming to 23 elementary sites and a middle-school launch; scholarship spending is outpacing a $1.6 million budgeted amount and staff said long-term sustainability depends on securing private and community funding.

The Sioux Falls School Board on Dec. 8 heard an update on the Community Learning Centers (CLC), which district staff said continued to expand at elementary and middle-school levels while scholarship spending outpaced the current budget.

Mr. Kaiser, who leads the CLC program, said elementary after-school programming expanded to 23 schools with enrollment trending back toward prior highs, and before-school programming increased from one to eight schools…

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