Community Schools Act

The act authorizes community schools initiatives in public schools, tying them to school improvement functions and setting the requirements participating schools must satisfy. Its principal mechanism is a grant program available to school districts, groups of public schools, and individual public schools, with limits on indirect costs and defined duties for recipients, operating under a prescribed community school framework and a designated community school coordinator. It also establishes a coalition for community schools and a dedicated fund, both subject to accountability requirements, to support and oversee the work.

Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.