For the purposes of this subchapter, the term:

1. (1) “Community partner” means a provider of one or more eligible services.
2. (2) “Community school” means a public and private partnership to coordinate educational, developmental, family, health, and after-school-care programs during school and non-school hours for students, families, and local communities at a public school or public charter school with the objectives of improving academic achievement, reducing absenteeism, building stronger relationships between students, parents, and communities, and improving the skills, capacity, and well-being of the surrounding community residents.
3. (3) “Eligible consortium” means a partnership established between a local education agency and one or more community partners for purposes of establishing, operating, and sustaining a community school.

4. (4) “Eligible services” means:

   1. (A) Primary medical and dental care that will be available to students and community residents;
   2. (B) Mental health prevention and treatment services that will be available to students and community residents;
   3. (C) Academic-enrichment activities designed to promote a student’s cognitive development and provide opportunities to practice and apply academic skills;
   4. (D) Programs designed to increase attendance, including reducing early chronic absenteeism rates;
   5. (E) 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;
   6. (F) Early childhood education, including Head Start and Early Head Start programs;

   7. (G) Programs designed to:

      1. (i) 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;
      2. (ii) Promote parental leadership in the life of the school; and
      3. (iii) Build parenting skills;
   8. (H) 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;
   9. (I) Programs that provide assistance to students who have been truant, suspended, or expelled and that offer multiple pathways to high school graduation or General Educational Development completion;
   10. (J) Youth and adult job-training services and career-counseling services;
   11. (K) Nutrition-education services;
   12. (L) Adult education, including instruction in English as a second language, adult literacy, computer literacy, financial literacy, and hard-skills training;
   13. (M) Programs that provide remedial education and enrichment activities; or
   14. (N) Programs that provide a full continuum of school-based, early literacy intervention services for all grades pre-K through 3, consisting of developmentally appropriate components for each grade, through a comprehensive intervention model.

History

June 19, 2012, D.C. Law 19-142, § 402, 59 DCR 3642

Sept. 11, 2019, D.C. Law 23-16, § 4112(a)

Section References

This section is referenced in § 38-754.03.

Emergency Legislation

For temporary (90 days) amendment of this section, see § 4112(a) of Fiscal Year 2020 Budget Support Emergency Act of 2019 (D.C. Act 23-91, July 22, 2019, 66 DCR 8497).

For temporary (90 days) amendment of this section, see § 4112(a) of Fiscal Year 2020 Budget Support Congressional Review Emergency Act of 2019 (D.C. Act 23-112, Sept. 4, 2019, 66 DCR 11964).