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21st Century program director outlines staffing, programming and monitoring challenges
Summary
Cindy Mullen told the board the 21st Century after-school grant entered a monitoring year, the program is short on K–5 staff and seeks community volunteers, and highlighted programming including Model UN support, entrepreneurship sessions and a free family movie night at the Star Theater.
Cindy Mullen, representing the 21st Century grant program, told the board the federal grant started July 1 and the district is now in a monitoring year that requires expanded documentation and state-level adjustments.
Mullen said staffing is thin for the K–5 after-school program and the program is actively recruiting school-day staff and community members for flexible roles. She described core program goals — expansion of 6–12 programming, family engagement and career readiness — and said career-readiness targets were the one area the program did not meet in the state reporting cycle. Mullen highlighted specific activities supported by the grant, including Model UN participation, entrepreneurship ‘all boss club’ sessions, crochet and poetry, middle-school cheer support and SNAP-Ed nutrition lessons. She also announced a free family movie night next Thursday at the Star Theater, with Santa and a potluck.
Mullen asked the board and community to help with volunteer recruitment and to contact her for more information; she thanked school staff and community sponsors for support.
