§12525 Applications

Summary

States, territories, and Indian tribes must apply to the Corporation through their education agency to get an allotment under section 12524. The application must be approved and filed when and how the Corporation’s Chief Executive Officer reasonably requires. It must include a 3-year plan for service-learning that shows how the program will fit into students’ schoolwork, the rules the state or tribe will use to approve local applications, and a promise to follow section 12526(a). The application must also promise to give students from different ages, races, genders, ethnic groups, disabilities, and incomes chances to serve together; let K–12 students join and serve together; involve participants in planning and running the programs; focus on high-need areas like low-income or rural places; and follow rules against duplicating or displacing jobs and against unfair notice, hearing, or grievance procedures (sections 12637 and 12636). Groups that want funds from a state, territory, or tribe for school-based service-learning—such as qualified organizations, tribes, schools, colleges, businesses, or partnerships—must apply to that state or tribe’s education agency and get approval. Those applications must be filed when, how, and with the information the state, territory, or tribe reasonably requires.