Definitions

For the purposes of this subchapter, the term: (1) “Community partner” means a provider of one or more eligible services. (2) “Community school” means a public and private partnership to coordinate educational, developmental, family, health, and after-school-care programs during school and non-school hours for students, families, and local communities at a public school or public charter school with the objectives of improving academic achievement, reducing absenteeism, building stronger relationships between students, parents, and communities, and improving the skills, capacity, and well-being of the surrounding community residents. (3) “Eligible consortium” means a partnership established between a local education agency and one or more community partners for purposes of establishing, operating, and sustaining a community school. (4) “Eligible services” means: (A) Primary medical and dental care that will be available to students and community residents; (B) Mental health prevention and treatment services that will be available to students and community residents; (C) Academic-enrichment activities designed to promote a student’s cognitive development and provide opportunities to practice and apply academic skills; (D) Programs designed to increase attendance, including reducing early chronic absenteeism rates; (E) Youth development programs designed to promote young people’s social, emotional, physical, and moral development, including arts, sports, physical fitness, youth leadership, community service, and service-learning opportunities; (F) Early childhood education, including Head Start and Early Head Start programs; (G) Programs designed to: (i) Facilitate parental involvement in, and engagement with, their children’s education, including parental activities that involve supporting, monitoring, and advocating for their children’s education; (ii) Promote parental leadership in the life of the school; and (iii) Build parenting skills; (H) School-age child-care services, including before-school and after-school services and full-day programming that operates during school holidays, summers, vacations, and weekends; (I) Programs that provide assistance to students who have been truant, suspended, or expelled and that offer multiple pathways to high school graduation or General Educational Development completion; (J) Youth and adult job-training services and career-counseling services; (K) Nutrition-education services; (L) Adult education, including instruction in English as a second language, adult literacy, computer literacy, financial literacy, and hard-skills training; or (M) Programs that provide remedial education and enrichment activities.