{"id":3916,"date":"2025-09-17T19:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T19:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mpsschoolwebsi.wpenginepowered.com\/thurstonwoods\/?page_id=3916"},"modified":"2026-01-28T22:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:08:25","slug":"after-school-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/thurstonwoods\/families\/after-school-program\/","title":{"rendered":"After-School Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thurston Woods Campus hosts an after-school program through its Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Center at Thurston Woods.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Open from <strong>2:15 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.<\/strong> on school days, the Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Center at Thurston Woods is an after-school enrichment program for K4 through eighth-grade students.<\/p>\n<p>The School Community Learning Center is led by three partners:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Milwaukee Recreation<\/li>\n<li>Silver Spring Neighborhood Center<\/li>\n<li>Thurston Woods Campus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Every Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Center offers a healthy snack or light dinner, and supervised, structured academic enrichment opportunities that reinforce what students are learning in school.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Academic Enrichment: Math and reading support<\/li>\n<li>Arts Programming<\/li>\n<li>College and Career Readiness<\/li>\n<li>Family Engagement Activities<\/li>\n<li>Social and Emotional Learning<\/li>\n<li>Youth Development Activities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Fees<\/h2>\n<p>Milwaukee Public Schools\u2019 21st CCLC programs may charge nominal program fees. The inability to pay fees or to receive Wisconsin Shares authorization cannot be a barrier to participation for students.<\/p>\n<p>For fee information, please contact the Thurston Woods Community Learning Center site coordinator, Angela Mack, at <a href=\"mailto:mackar@milwaukee.k12.wi.us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mackar@milwaukee.k12.wi.us<\/a> or (414) 393-2824.<\/p>\n<p>All Milwaukee Public Schools community learning centers are funded by\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/dpi.wi.gov\/sspw\/clc\/grant-competition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Center federal grant funds<\/a>\u202fthrough a grant agreement with the\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/dpi.wi.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction<\/a>. The federal\u202fElementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended by No Child Left Behind, Title IV, Part B, fund all 21st Century Community Learning Center grants.<\/p>\n<h2>Registration<\/h2>\n<p>Registration forms are available at the school\u2019s 21st CCLC site and must be submitted to the site coordinator. Additional forms may be required as part of the registration process.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the registration process, contact the community learning center site coordinator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thurston Woods Campus hosts an after-school program through its Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Center at Thurston Woods. Open from 2:15 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on school days, the Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Center at Thurston Woods is an after-school enrichment program for K4 through eighth-grade students. The School Community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":168,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-3916","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/thurstonwoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/thurstonwoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/thurstonwoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/thurstonwoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/thurstonwoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/thurstonwoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3916\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/thurstonwoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/thurstonwoods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}