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Tenn. Code Ann. § 49-6-2403

Part definitions

Acts 2014, ch. 968, § 4.

As used in this part:

(1) “Community consortium” means a partnership established between an LEA and one (1) or more community partners for purposes of establishing, operating, and sustaining a community school;

(2) “Community partner” means a provider of one (1) or more community services or a community organization or for-profit or nonprofit entity with a desire to improve conditions in the community;

(3) “Community school” means a public and private partnership to coordinate educational, developmental, family, health, and before-school and after-school-care programs during school and nonschool hours for students, families, and local communities at a public school with the objectives of improving academic achievement, reducing absenteeism, building stronger relationships between schools, students, parents, and communities, and improving the skills, capacity, and well-being of the surrounding community residents; and

(4) “Community services” include: Primary medical and dental care that is available to students and community residents;

(5) Mental health prevention and treatment services that are available to students and community residents;

(6) Academic-enrichment activities designed to promote a student's cognitive development and provide opportunities to practice and apply academic skills;

(7) Programs designed to increase school attendance, including reducing early chronic absenteeism rates;

(8) 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;

(9) Early childhood education, including the voluntary pre-K, Head Start and Early Head Start programs;

(10) Programs designed to: 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;

(11) Promote parental leadership in the life of the school; and

(12) Build parenting skills;

(13) 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;

(14) Programs that provide assistance to students who have been truant, suspended, or expelled and that offer multiple pathways to high school graduation, a GED(R) or other alternatives to high school completion;

(15) Youth and adult job-training services and career-counseling services;

(16) Nutrition-education services;

(17) Adult education, including instruction in English as a second language, adult literacy, computer literacy, financial literacy, and hard-skills training; and

(18) Programs that provide remedial education and enrichment activities.

Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.