Contact: Tammy Lane • First Posted: Tuesday, February 9, 2010

The Martin Luther King Jr. Academy for Excellence and Winburn Middle School have been awarded 21^st Century Community Learning Center grants. Each school will receive $637,500 over the five-year grant period for enrichment activities. 

The grants will fund such initiatives as family literacy programs, tutoring, ACT/SAT preparation, team building, drug and violence prevention, mentoring, counseling, art, music, recreation, technology instruction and field trips.

MLK Academy will expand the Educational Safe Houses Program it operates with community partners Bluegrass Youth for Christ, Consolidated Baptist Church, the Police Activities League, the University of Kentucky, and Unemployment Solutions at Tates Creek Center. 

Winburn Middle has partnered with LFUCG Parks and Recreation to enhance its after-school programming as well as implement new before-school and summer program components. 

The 21^st Century Community Learning Center grants are administered by the Kentucky Department of Education as part of the federal Title IV program. The funds are used to design and implement out-of-school academic and enrichment programs. 

For more details, contact Susan Decker Davis at the school district’s main office.