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Date: Immediate Grand Opening of Clinton Corner Family Campus The Garden Grove Unified School District will host grand opening festivities on Friday, Sept. 26, for the new Clinton Corner Family Campus, a unique community learning center providing an array of vital education services for preschoolers through adults. The special activities will take place at 9:30 a.m. in the courtyard of the campus, located at 13581 Clinton St., Garden Grove (at Trask Ave. and Clinton St.). There will be short presentations by community and district speakers, and a brief performance by preschool children, followed by a tour of the facility. Invited guests include the Board of Education, the Garden Grove City Council, the Children and Families Commission of Orange County, the Boys and Girls Club of Garden Grove, representatives from Verizon and the Verizon Super Pages, and the Garden Grove Community Foundation. Clinton Corner Family Campus represents an ambitious collaboration between local educational and community service organizations to prepare children for academic success and provide their parents with educational and language skills for tutoring in the home. The facility, which opened earlier this month with 14 permanent modular rooms, provides adult education English language-citizenship classes, preschool and school readiness services, family literacy programs, a community lending library, a computer lab, and academic after-school programs in partnership with the Boys and Girls Club of Garden Grove. The preschool and school readiness programs are targeting future kindergarteners in the Skylark, Clinton-Mendenhall, Riverdale, and Eisenhower elementary school attendance areas. The four schools serve high numbers of English learners and disadvantaged families eligible for free and discounted school meals. At Skylark School, for example, 90 percent of the students are English learners and 92 percent are eligible for subsidized meals. “We are delivering a broad range of services directly to the community near where the children and their families live,” explained Debbie Youngblood, GGUSD director of categorical services. “Children who benefit from quality preschool and school readiness programs, with involved families, have better test scores, demonstrate improved learning and social skills, and have higher rates of success later in life.” Ongoing and one-time funds to support Clinton Corner are provided though the California and Orange County Children and Families commissions (Prop. 10 tobacco tax revenue) and the statewide School Readiness Initiative, adult education and state Community Based English Tutoring (CBET) funds, state preschool, and the Boys and Girls Club of Garden Grove. Verizon Super Pages donated $25,000 for a Family Literacy and Technology Center housing four Macintosh computers, a printer, and two special children’s computers.
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