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Ansonia
District to start Empowering After School Program
ANSONIA – This fall Ansonia Local Schools will be joining Greenville in
its goal to help struggling students by offering the Empowering Darke
County Youth After School Program.
“We’re pleased to be the first school district outside of Greenville to
initiate this program,” said Jim Atchley, Superintendent of Ansonia
Schools. “It’s another opportunity to provide tutoring instruction to
our students,” he continued, noting that they have students who
definitely need the help. “It (the Empowering Program) is a great
innovation that we can use to serve our students,” he added.
The Ansonia program will be available to first through fourth graders
for the 2019-20 school year. Atchley, and Elementary School Principal
Ashlee Fourman, indicated that these were the grades they wanted to
offer first. Like the Greenville Empowering program did in 2016,
Ansonia is leaving other grade options open for the future.
“We are delighted that Ansonia is going to be working with us this
year,” said Executive Director Bob Robinson. “As our name implies, our
goal is to reach any student needing extra help, regardless of the
school district he or she lives in. I’d like to thank Jim and Ashlee
for joining us in this objective.”
Speaking on behalf of the Empowering Darke County Youth Board of
Directors, Vice President Susi Halley said, the board is thrilled to
extend this invaluable program to Ansonia Schools. “Many thanks to Jim
and Ashlee for organizing it for the benefit of their students,” she
added. “They are the first to take on our expansion of going countywide
and we look forward to their great success."
Atchley commented that this wasn’t the first time Ansonia followed
Greenville’s lead to help their students. “We were the first to follow
Greenville with its Bridges to College program, too,” he said. “It’s
also a great program and we’re still involved offering it to our
students.”
Robinson noted that the Empowering Summer Tutoring program has worked
with students from nearly every school district in Darke County.
Parents take advantage of free tutoring at Edison State for small group
tutoring, and the Greenville Public Library for one-on-one tutoring.
The Greenville After School Program continues to grow, with 139
requests for help last fall. Over the 2018-19 period, the Empowering
program worked with 161 Greenville students, kindergarten through
eighth grade. Since the program’s inception in March 2016, Empowering
tutors and volunteers have worked more than 15,000 hours with 612
students.
The Empowering Mission: Empowering Darke County Youth is a 501c3 United
Way Partner providing After School and Summer Tutoring programs to
assist students in the areas of language arts and math with the goal of
Strong Students for a Strong Community. If you would like more
information or to help, go to Empowering Facebook or email:
empoweringyouth101@gmail.com. Donations and letters of inquiry may be
sent to P.O. Box 1113, Greenville 45331.
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