Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-102
§12521 Purpose
Title 42 › CHAPTER 129 — NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE › SUBCHAPTER I — NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE STATE GRANT PROGRAM › Part I — Programs for Elementary and Secondary School Students › § 12521
Summary
Encourage service-learning that helps communities, improves students' school and civic skills, and builds groups' ability, including teacher training, to expand service opportunities.
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Title 42, §12521
The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
The purpose of this part is to promote service-learning as a strategy to—
(1)support high-quality service-learning projects that engage students in meeting community needs with demonstrable results, while enhancing students’ academic and civic learning; and
(2)support efforts to build institutional capacity, including the training of educators, and to strengthen the service infrastructure to expand service opportunities.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
A prior section 12521, Pub. L. 101–610, title I, § 111, as added Pub. L. 103–82, title I, § 103(a)(2), Sept. 21, 1993, 107 Stat. 825, prescribed general authority of the Corporation for National and Community Service to make grants for service-learning programs, prior to the general amendment of this part by Pub. L. 111–13. Another prior section 12521, Pub. L. 101–610, title I, § 111, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3132; Pub. L. 102–10, § 4(2), Mar. 12, 1991, 105 Stat. 30, prescribed general authority of Commission on National and Community Service to make grants for service-learning programs, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103–82, title I, § 103(a)(2), Sept. 21, 1993, 107 Stat. 825.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective Oct. 1, 2009, see section 6101(a) of Pub. L. 111–13, set out as an
Effective Date
of 2009 Amendment note under section 4950 of this title.
Reference
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Citation
42 U.S.C. § 12521
Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102