Title: G5-Prime Time Palm Beach County Grant for Community Middle School After-School Newspaper Project

Recommendation:

I recommend approval of the Prime Time Palm Beach County Grant for $50,000 effective June 1, 2006 through May 31, 2007, and authorize the Superintendent or designee to sign all documents that are required for implementation of grant activities.

Description:

• The project will bring together students from ten community sites or middle school after-school sites from the eastern and western communities (five from the Riviera Beach area and five from the Belle Glade, Pahokee, and South Bay areas) to produce a quarterly teen newspaper with original writing and photography. The newspaper will be distributed throughout Palm Beach County after-school programs.
• During the project youth will keep a notebook/journal of their experiences in developing a newspaper for reflection purposes and documentation of service hours.
• The purpose of the newspaper is to enhance the visual arts, graphic design, creative writing, and critical thinking capacity of middle school age youth in the targeted areas.
• The 10 community used sites will self-select to participate in this project. Approximately 200 community middle school after school students will participate in this project.
• The impact of the project will be the development and distribution of the community middle school after-school newspaper.

Financial Impact:

The financial impact to the Special Revenue-Other Funds Budget is an increase of $50,000. There is no financial impact to the Operating Budget.

For Additional Information, contact:

Ann Killets                   akillets@palmbeach.k12.fl.us

Attachments (list):
Data Panel Prime Time Afterschool Newspaper Grant.pdf
Prime Time Service Learning Newspaper Grant.pdf
Q&AG5.doc