MEDIA ADVISORY

MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR GRANT TO IMPROVE AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS FOR WASHINGTON, DC, STUDENTS

City, School, and Foundation Officials Set to Announce Grant on June 27

What: Press conference to announce major new investment to improve after-school programs for DC students
When: 11 a.m., June 27
Where: Kelly Miller Middle School, 301 49th St., N.E., Washington, DC (off East Capitol Street NE)

WASHINGTON, DC — The DC Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation and top city and school district officials will announce that a national foundation is making a major investment to improve after-school programs for students in the District of Columbia.

The District is one of five cities nationwide chosen by the New York–based Wallace Foundation to participate in its Learning in Communities initiative, which aims to develop comprehensive systems for out-of-school learning with consistently high standards. The other cities are Providence, New York, Boston, and Chicago.

Speakers at the press conference include:

• Greg Roberts, President and CEO of the DC Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation
• Robert Bobb, DC Administrator
• Dr. Clifford B. Janey, Superintendent of the DC Public Schools
• Nancy Devine, Director of Arts and Communities Programs at The Wallace Foundation
• Maurice Kie, a young man whose participation after school in the Life Pieces to Masterpieces program helped him stay on track to college

The initiative will begin in three pilot middle schools in January, and those schools will be announced at the press conference.

“We want to engage all students in the District in after-school programs that are safe, enriching and of the highest quality,” said Greg Roberts, president and CEO of the DC Children and Youth Investment Trust.