Tennessee 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.