1.This Act may be cited as the
Full-Service Community Schools Act of
2005
.
2.The purposes of this Act are the
following:
(1)Providing support for the planning,
implementation, and operation of full-service community schools.
(2)Improving the coordination, availability,
and effectiveness of services for children and families.
(3)Enabling principals and teachers to
complement and enrich efforts to help all children reach proficiency in reading
and mathematics by 2014.
(4)Ensuring that children come to school ready
to learn every day.
(5)Enabling families to participate in the
education of their children.
(6)Enabling more efficient use of Federal,
State, local, and private sector resources that serve children and
families.
(7)Facilitating the coordination of programs
operated by community-based organizations, nonprofit organizations, and State,
local, and tribal governments.
(8)Engaging students as resources to their
communities.
3.Full-service community
schoolIn this Act, the term
full-service community school means a public elementary school or
secondary school that—
(1)participates in a community-based effort to
coordinate educational, developmental, family, health, and other comprehensive
services through community-based organizations and public and private
partnerships; and
(2)provides access to such services to
students, families, and the community.
4.
(a)The Secretary of Education (in this Act
referred to as the Secretary
) may award grants to eligible
entities to assist public elementary schools or secondary schools to function
as full-service community schools.
(b)An eligible entity that desires to receive
a grant under this section shall submit an application to the Secretary at such
time and in such manner as the Secretary may require. The Secretary shall
require that each such application include the following:
(1)A description of the eligible
entity.
(2)A list of partner entities that will assist
the eligible entity to coordinate or provide qualified services.
(3)A memorandum of understanding between the
eligible entity and all partner entities describing the role the partner
entities will assume.
(4)A description of the capacity of the
eligible entity to provide and coordinate qualified services at a full-service
community school.
(5)A comprehensive plan that includes
descriptions of the following:
(A)The student, family, and school community
to be served, including information about the demographic characteristics and
needs of students, families, and community residents, the number of individuals
to be served, and the frequency of services.
(B)Qualified services to be provided or
coordinated by the eligible entity and its partner entities.
(C)Planning, coordination, management, and
oversight of qualified services at each school to be served, including the role
of the school principal, the full-service community school coordinator, partner
entities, parents, and members of the community.
(D)Funding sources for qualified services at
each school to be served, whether such funding is derived from grants under
this section or from other Federal, State, local, or private sources.
(E)Plans for professional development for
personnel managing, or coordinating or delivering qualified services at, the
schools to be served.
(F)Plans for joint utilization and maintenance
of school facilities by the eligible entity and its partner entities.
(6)Identification of principles of
effectiveness that are based on—
(A)an assessment of objective data regarding
the need for the establishment of a full-service community school and qualified
services at each school to be served and in the community involved;
(B)an established set of performance measures
aimed at ensuring the availability and effectiveness of high-quality qualified
services; and
(C)if appropriate, scientifically-based
research that provides evidence that the qualified services involved will help
students meet State and local student academic achievement standards.
(7)A strategy for developing a plan for
sustainability.
(c)In awarding grants under this section, the
Secretary shall give priority to eligible entities that—
(1)will serve not less than 1 school eligible
for a schoolwide program under section 1114 of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
1965 (20 U.S.C. 6314);
(2)demonstrate a record of effectiveness in
coordinating multiple qualified services; and
(3)will serve more than 1 full-service
community school as part of a community- or district-wide strategy.
(d)Grants awarded under
this section shall be used to coordinate or provide not less than 3 qualified
services at 1 or more public elementary schools or secondary schools.
(e)Each grant awarded
under this section shall be for a period of 5 years.
(f)The Secretary may not
award a grant to an eligible entity under this section in an amount that is
less than $75,000 for each year of the 5-year grant period.
(g)In this section:
(1)The term
eligible entity means a consortium composed of a local educational
agency and 1 or more community-based organizations, nonprofit organizations, or
other public or private entities.
(2)The term
qualified services means any of the following:
(A)Early childhood education.
(B)Remedial education activities and academic
enrichment activities.
(C)Programs under the
Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9831 et
seq.), including Early Head Start programs carried out under section
645A of such Act (42 U.S.C. 9840a).
(D)Programs that promote parental involvement
and family literacy, including the Reading First, Early Reading First, and
William F. Goodling Even Start Family Literacy programs authorized under part B
of title I of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6361 et seq.).
(E)Mentoring and other youth development
programs.
(F)Parent leadership development
activities.
(G)Parenting education activities.
(H)Child care services.
(I)Community service and service learning
opportunities.
(J)Programs that provide assistance to
students who have been truant, suspended, or expelled.
(K)Job training and career counseling
services.
(L)Nutrition services.
(M)Primary health and dental care.
(N)Mental health counseling services.
(O)Adult education, including instruction in
English as a second language.
(P)Other services consistent with this
Act.
5.
(a)The Secretary may award grants to State
collaboratives to support the development of full-service community school
programs in accordance with this section.
(b)A State collaborative that desires to
receive a grant under this section shall submit an application to the Secretary
at such time and in such manner as the Secretary may require. The Secretary
shall require that each such application include the following:
(1)A list of all governmental agencies and
nonprofit organizations that will participate as members of the State
collaborative.
(2)A description of the expertise of each
member of the State collaborative—
(A)in coordinating Federal and State programs
across multiple agencies; and
(B)in working with and developing the capacity
of full-service community schools.
(3)A comprehensive plan describing how the
grant will be used to plan, coordinate, and expand the delivery of services at
full-service community schools.
(4)An explanation of how the State
collaborative will provide technical assistance and training, including
professional development, for full-service community schools.
(5)An explanation of how the State will
collect and evaluate information on full-service community schools.
(c)Grants awarded under
this section shall be used only for the following:
(1)Planning, coordinating, and expanding the
development of full-service community schools in the State.
(2)Providing technical assistance and training
for full-service community schools, including professional development for
personnel and creation of data collection and evaluation systems.
(3)Collecting, evaluating, and reporting data
about the progress of full-service community schools.
(4)Evaluating the impact of State policies and
guidelines in the integration of Federal and State programs at full-service
community schools.
(d)Each grant awarded
under this section shall be for a period of 5 years.
(e)The Secretary may not
award a grant to a State collaborative under this section in an amount that is
less than $500,000 for each year of the 5-year grant period.
(f)In this section:
(1)The term State means each of
the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,
the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the
United States Virgin Islands, and any other territory or possession of the
United States.
(2)The term
State collaborative means a collaborative of a State educational
agency and not less than 2 other governmental agencies or nonprofit
organizations that provide services to children and families.
6.
(a)There is established an advisory committee
to be known as the Full-Service Community Schools Advisory
Committee
(in this section referred to as the Advisory
Committee
).
(b)Subject to subsection (c), the Advisory
Committee shall—
(1)consult with the Secretary on the
development and implementation of programs under this Act;
(2)identify strategies to improve the
coordination of Federal programs in support of full-service community schools;
and
(3)issue an annual report to Congress on
efforts under this Act, including a description of—
(A)the results of local and national
evaluation of such efforts; and
(B)the scope of services being coordinated
under this Act.
(c)In carrying out its duties under this
section, the Advisory Committee shall consult annually with eligible entities
awarded grants under section 4, State collaboratives awarded grants under
section 5, and other entities with expertise in operating full-service
community schools.
(d)The Advisory Committee shall consist of 4
members as follows:
(1)The Attorney General of the United States
(or the Attorney General’s delegate).
(2)The Secretary of Agriculture (or the
Secretary’s delegate).
(3)The Secretary of Health and Human Services
(or the Secretary’s delegate).
(4)The Secretary of Labor (or the Secretary’s
delegate).
7.
(a)The Secretary,
directly or through grants, shall provide such technical assistance as may be
appropriate to accomplish the purposes of this Act.
(b)The Secretary shall
conduct evaluations on the effectiveness of grants under sections 4 and 5 in
achieving the purposes of this Act.
(c)The Secretary shall
require each recipient of a grant under this Act—
(1)to conduct periodic evaluations of the
progress achieved with the grant toward achieving the purposes of this
Act;
(2)to use such evaluations to refine and
improve activities conducted with the grant and the performance measures for
such activities; and
(3)to make the results of such evaluations
publicly available, including by providing public notice of such
availability.
(d)Funds made available
to a grantee under this Act may be used only to supplement, and not supplant,
any other Federal, State, or local funds that would otherwise be available to
carry out the activities assisted under this Act.
(e)
(1)The Secretary shall
require each recipient of a grant under this Act to provide matching funds from
non-Federal sources in an amount determined under paragraph (2).
(2)Determination of
amount of match
(A)Subject to subparagraph
(B), the Secretary shall determine the amount of matching funds to be required
of a grantee under this subsection based on a sliding fee scale that takes into
account—
(i)the relative poverty of the population to
be targeted by the grantee; and
(ii)the ability of the grantee to obtain such
matching funds.
(B)The Secretary may not
require any grantee under this Act to provide matching funds in an amount that
exceeds the amount of the grant award.
(3)The Secretary
shall permit grantees under this Act to match funds in whole or in part with
in-kind contributions.
(4)Notwithstanding this subsection, the
Secretary shall not consider an applicant’s ability to match funds when
determining which applicants will receive grants under this Act.
8.Authorization of
appropriations
(a)There are authorized
to be appropriated to carry out this Act $200,000,000 for fiscal year 2006 and
such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 2007 through
2010.
(b)Of the amounts appropriated to carry out
this Act for each fiscal year—
(1)75 percent shall be for section 4;
(2)20 percent shall be for section 5;
and
(3)of the remaining 5 percent, not less than
$500,000 shall be for technical assistance under section 7(a).