Lansing School District

The Lansing School District is a 21st Century Community Learning Center (CCLC) grantee which provides programming for three high schools and one middle school.  The Michigan Department of Education (MDE), the state administrator of 21st CCLC funds, has a history of working closely with the David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality (Weikart Center) to support grantees around the state. In May of 2008, MDE referred the Lansing 21st CCLC program for additional support because of lower than expected attendance.

Attendance in afterschool programs has been linked to numerous positive outcomes, but sustaining participation by older youth has been a persistent challenge. In August 2008, the Lansing School District contracted with the Weikart Center to develop a one year intervention that would dramatically improve management capacity, the quality of instruction at the point of service, and ultimately, attendance by high school aged youth.