1.This Act may be cited as the
Full-Service Community Schools Act of
2009
.
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 math 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.
(9)Engaging the business community and other
community organizations as partners in the development of full-service
community schools.
3.Full-service
community schoolFor purposes
of this Act, the term full-service community school means a public
elementary 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 or secondary
schools to function as full-service community schools.
(b)Grants awarded under this section shall be used to
coordinate not less than 3 qualified existing services and provide not less
than 2 qualified additional services at 1 or more public elementary or
secondary schools.
(c)To
seek a grant under this section, an eligible entity 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 and
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 coordinate and provide
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 families and students to be served, and the frequency
of services.
(B)Yearly measurable
performance goals for the program, including an increase in the percentage of
families and students targeted for services each year of the program and
improved outcomes for students and families, particularly student academic
achievement.
(C)Performance
measures to monitor progress toward attainment of the goals established under
subparagraph (B).
(D)Qualified
services, existing and additional, to be coordinated and provided by the
eligible entity and its partner entities, including an explanation of why these
services have been selected, and how they respond to specified needs.
(E)Plans to ensure
that each site has full-time coordination of qualified services at each
full-service community school.
(F)Planning,
coordination, management, and oversight of qualified services at each school to
be served, including the role of the school principal, partner entities,
parents, and members of the community.
(G)Funding sources
for qualified services to be coordinated and provided 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.
(H)Plans for
professional development for personnel managing, or coordinating or delivering
qualified services at, the schools to be served.
(I)Plans for joint
utilization and maintenance of school facilities by the eligible entity and its
partner entities.
(J)How the eligible entity and its partners
will focus services on schools eligible for a schoolwide program under section
1114 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.
6314).
(K)Plans for periodic
evaluation based upon attainment of the performance measures described in
subparagraph (C).
(L)How the provision
and coordination of qualified services is expected to improve student academic
achievement.
(M)How the qualified
services will meet the principles of effectiveness described in subsection
(d).
(6)A
plan for sustainability.
(d)Principles of
effectiveness
(1)For a program developed pursuant to this section to meet
principles of effectiveness, such program shall—
(A)be based upon 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)be based upon an
established set of performance measures aimed at ensuring the availability and
effectiveness of high-quality services; and
(C)if appropriate, be
based upon scientifically based research that provides evidence that the
qualified services involved will help students meet State and local student
academic achievement standards.
(e)In
awarding grants under this section, the Secretary shall give priority to
eligible entities that—
(1)will serve 2 or more full-service community
schools eligible for a school-wide 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;
(3)will serve more
than 1 full-service community school as part of a community- or district-wide
strategy; and
(4)will be connected
to a school and community partnership group that brings together key
stakeholders across sectors, such as the local educational agency, parents and
neighborhood residents, youth, local government, institutions of higher
education, teacher unions, community-based organizations, business and civic
groups, and others to improve results for students and their families.
(f)Each grant awarded under this section shall be for a
period of 5 years and may be renewed at the discretion of the Secretary based
on demonstrated effectiveness in meeting performance goals and measure as
described in subparagraphs (B) and (C) of subsection (c)(5).
(g)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.
(h)In
this section:
(1)The term
additional services means services directly funded under this
Act.
(2)The term
eligible entity means a consortium of a local educational agency
and 1 or more community-based organizations, nonprofit organizations, or other
public or private entities.
(3)The term
existing services means services already being financed by
Federal, State, local or private sources, or volunteer activities being
supported by civic, business, faith-based, social, and other similar
organizations.
(4)The term
qualified services means any of the following:
(A)Early childhood
education.
(B)Remedial education
activities and enrichment activities.
(C)Programs under the
Head Start Act, including Early Head Start programs.
(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 in 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)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, particularly
schools in high-poverty local educational agencies.
(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 and Federal policies and guidelines on the ability of eligible
entities to integrate Federal and State programs at full-service community
schools, and taking action to make necessary changes.
(c)To
seek a grant under this section, a State collaborative 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;
(B)in working with
and developing the capacity of full-service community schools; and
(C)in working with high-poverty schools and
local educational agencies.
(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)A
comprehensive accountability plan that will be used to demonstrate
effectiveness, including the measurable performance goals of the program and
performance measures to monitor progress and assess services’ impact on
students and families and academic achievement.
(5)An explanation of
how the State collaborative will provide technical assistance and training,
including professional development, for full-service community schools.
(6)An explanation of
how the State will collect and evaluate information on 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)For
purposes of this section:
(1)The term
State includes the several States, the District of Columbia, the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands,
American Samoa, Guam, the 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 hereby 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 the 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 5 members as follows:
(1)The Secretary of Education (or the
Secretary’s delegate).
(2)The Attorney
General of the United States (or the Attorney General’s delegate).
(3)The Secretary of
Agriculture (or the Secretary’s delegate).
(4)The Secretary of
Health and Human Services (or the Secretary’s delegate).
(5)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
section to provide matching funds in an amount that exceeds the amount of the
grant award.
(3)The Secretary shall permit grantees under this
section 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.
(f)Entities receiving funds under this Act shall comply with
all existing Federal statutes that prohibit discrimination.
8.Authorization of
appropriations
(a)There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this
Act $200,000,000 for fiscal year 2010 and such sums as may be necessary for
each of fiscal years 2011 through 2014.
(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).