November 10, 2014

$400K grant keeps Pottstown after-school program running

By Evan Brandt, The Mercury

Robin Romero, left, and fifth- and sixth-grade Principal Matthew Boyer help a student during the 21st Century after-school program at Pottstown Middle School. Photo Courtesy of Gail Cooper

An after-school and summer enrichment and tutoring program for Pottstown students will be continued and expanded as the result of a $400,000 grant award, Gov. Tom Corbett announced Monday. Funded through the federal 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program, the state issued a total of $23.1 million to 64 school districts and community-based organizations in 29 counties across the state. In Montgomery County, the only other organization to receive a grant was the Norristown Area School District.

“This is very exciting,” said Pottstown Middle School Principal Gail Cooper, who heads up the building where much of the efforts have been focused for the past several years the program has been up and running. The grants come in three-year increments and this is the third time the district has been awarded a grant. This year, the application written by grants writer Sue Yocum calls for expanding the program into both the high school and elementary school levels.

Adding younger students

“Ever since we moved the fifth grade into the middle school, we have a lot of fifth and six graders arriving at school and hour early, because they come with their older brother or sister,” explained Matthew Boyer, principal of the fifth and sixth grade portions of the middle school.

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