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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 3438

To authorize grants to local educational agencies to develop and implement

coordinated services programs.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NOVEMBER 3, 1993

Ms. WOOLSEY (for herself, Mrs. LOWEY, and Mrs. MORELLA) introduced the

following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

A BILL

To authorize grants to local educational agencies to develop

and implement coordinated services programs.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Coordinate to Educate

5 Act’’.

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.

7 (a) FINDINGS.—The Congress makes the following

8 findings:

9 (1) Growing numbers of children live in an en10 vironment of social and economic conditions that
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1 greatly increase their risk of academic failure when

2 they become students.

3 (2) Many academically at-risk students suffer

4 the effects of inadequate nutrition and health care,

5 lack of child care, overcrowded and unsafe living

6 conditions and homelessness, family and gang vio7 lence, substance abuse, sexual abuse and child

8 abuse, involuntary migration and limited English

9 proficiency that often create severe barriers to learn10 ing the knowledge and skills needed to become lit11 erate, independent and productive citizens.

12 (3) Almost half of all children and youths live

13 in a single parent family for some period of their

14 lives, while many others live in families with two

15 full-time working parents, greatly reducing parental

16 involvement in their education.

17 (4) Services for at-risk students are often frag18 mented, inconvenient, expensive, overregulated, inef19 fective and duplicative, and focused on only a single

20 narrow problem without meeting the needs of the

21 child and the family.

22 (5) School personnel, parents, and support serv23 ice providers often lack knowledge of, and access to,

24 available services for at-risk students and their fami25 lies in the community, are constrained by bureau-
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1 cratic obstacles from providing the services most

2 needed, and have few resources or incentives to co3 ordinate services and make them accessible.

4 (6) Service providers, such as teachers, social

5 workers, health care and child care providers, juve6 nile justice workers and others, are often trained in

7 separate institutions, practice in separate agencies,

8 and pursue separate professional activities that pro9 vide little support for coordination and integration of

10 services.

11 (7) Coordination and integration of services for

12 at-risk students emphasizing prevention and early

13 intervention offer a greater opportunity to break the

14 cycle that leads to academic failure, leaving school,

15 low-skill levels, unemployment and low income.

16 (8) Coordination of services is cost effective for

17 schools and support agencies because it reduces du18 plication, improves quality of services, and sub19 stitutes prevention for expensive crisis interventions,

20 while ensuring that students are ready to learn when

21 they are in the classroom.

22 (b) PURPOSES.—It is the purpose of this Act to es23 tablish a program of grants to local education agencies

24 to improve students’ educational performances by—

25 (1) removing barriers to their learning;
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1 (2) coordinating and enhancing the effective2 ness of support services;

3 (3) making support services available, afford4 able, and convenient for those who need them;

5 (4) replicating and disseminating successful

6 high quality coordinated service programs;

7 (5) increasing parental involvement in edu8 cation;

9 (6) improving the capacity of school and sup10 port service personnel to collaborate;

11 (7) integrating services, regulations, data bases,

12 eligibility procedures and funding sources whenever

13 possible; and

14 (8) focusing school and community resources on

15 prevention and early intervention strategies to ad16 dress student needs and to ensure that students are

17 ready to learn when they are in the classroom.

18 SEC. 3. GRANT AUTHORIZATION.

19 The Secretary of Education is authorized to make de20 velopment and implementation grants to local education

21 agencies to develop and implement coordinated service

22 programs.

23 SEC. 4. DEVELOPMENT GRANTS.

24 (a) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to receive a grant

25 under this section, a local educational agency shall—
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1 (1) plan to collaborate with health and social

2 service agencies to develop a program of school3 linked integrated service for children and families on

4 or near a school site; or

5 (2) offer some coordinated services, but be able

6 to demonstrate a need for the expansion of services.

7 (b) DURATION.—Grants under this section may be

8 for up to 3 years duration, subject to providing the Sec9 retary with annual evidence of satisfactory progress to10 wards the achievement of a plan for a self-sufficient co11 ordinated service program.

12 (c) APPLICATIONS.—A local educational agency that

13 wishes to receive a grant under this section shall submit

14 an application which identifies—

15 (1) the need for coordinated services among all

16 or some of the students of a local educational agen17 cy;

18 (2) the proposed membership of a collaborative

19 which will be formed to achieve broad-based coordi20 nated services, including representatives from the

21 appropriate levels of all sectors and services nec22 essary to achieve broad-based coordinated services,

23 including representatives of children and families;

24 (3) the objectives of the collaboration; and

25 (4) performance measurements.
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1 (d) USE OF FUNDS.—Grants awarded under this sec2 tion shall be used to—

3 (1) plan and hold regular meetings of the col4 laborative;

5 (2) identify barriers to learning experienced by

6 students in the local educational agency that stem

7 from factors external to the public school system, in8 cluding poor health, physical and sexual abuse, poor

9 nutrition, inadequate housing, lack of appropriate

10 childcare and lack of appropriate preschool and be11 fore and after school care;

12 (3) assess the availability of currently existing

13 social service programs which could help to alleviate

14 these barriers;

15 (4) assess the availability of local, State and

16 private funds, the redirection of existing funds and

17 the use of in-kind services;

18 (5) assess the feasibility of a sliding scale fee

19 for services that will be delivered; and

20 (6) develop an interagency service delivery plan

21 that identifies—

22 (A) the priorities of the service providers

23 and the community;

24 (B) the availability and use of adequate

25 staff and physical resources;
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1 (C) a plan to coordinate Federal, State

2 and local regulations, eligibility requirements

3 and application procedures;

4 (D) how coordinated services will be deliv5 ered, including a case management system; and

6 (E) a plan to become self-sufficient, with7 out using funds authorized under this Act, not

8 later than 2 years after implementation.

9 SEC. 5. IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS.

10 (a) ELIGIBILITY.—A local educational agency that

11 desires to receive a grant under this section shall have an

12 interagency service delivery plan that has been approved

13 by the Secretary of Education.

14 (b) DURATION.—Grants under this section may not

15 exceed a 2-year period.

16 (c) APPLICATIONS.—To be eligible to receive a grant

17 under this section, a local educational agency shall submit

18 an application which—

19 (1) identifies barriers to learning experienced by

20 students in the local educational agency that stem

21 from factors external to the public school system, in22 cluding poor health, evidence of physical or sexual

23 abuse, poor nutrition, inadequate housing, lack of

24 appropriate childcare and lack of appropriate pre25 school and before and after school care;
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1 (2) identifies existing social service programs;

2 (3) identifies the participants in the delivery of

3 coordinated services, including community and par4 ent involvement;

5 (4) includes an interagency service delivery plan

6 which includes the priorities of the service providers

7 and the community;

8 (5) includes an interagency agreement signed

9 by key parties within the collaborative, partnership

10 schools and agencies that detail what will be done,

11 by whom and when;

12 (6) makes assurances that Federal funds will be

13 used for not more than 50 percent of the costs of

14 this project after the first year, with a commitment

15 of matching funds from other agencies or private

16 sources, including the redirection of existing funds

17 and the use of in-kind services which will fully sup18 port the project after the second year;

19 (7) identifies how the coordinated service pro20 gram will be staffed, including the case of a coordi21 nator and including a plan for interagency staff

22 training and development;

23 (8) identifies where the coordinated service pro24 gram will be located;
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1 (9) identifies how Federal, State, and local reg2 ulations, eligibility requirements and application pro3 cedures have been coordinated;

4 (10) utilizes a case management system; and

5 (11) sets sliding scale service fees, if feasible.

6 (d) USE OF FUNDS.—Grants awarded under this sec7 tion may be used—

8 (1) to locate and obtain commitments from

9 funding sources other than the Federal Government

10 when this grant ends;

11 (2) to improve interagency communications and

12 information-sharing, including developing tele13 communications networks, software development,

14 data base integration and management, and other

15 applications of technology that improve coordination

16 of service;

17 (3) to support colocation of interagency service

18 delivery programs in schools or other sites close to

19 schools, including rental or lease payments, open

20 and lock-up fees or maintenance and security costs

21 necessary for the delivery of services to students;

22 (4) for staff development, including in-service

23 and cross-agency training, for the interagency serv24 ice delivery team, including school staff;
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1 (5) to research and tabulate figures which dem2 onstrate the success of a coordinated services pro3 gram, including improved outcome for children and

4 families in terms of taxpayers dollars saved; and

5 (6) to support dissemination and replication of

6 successful programs to other areas within a local

7 educational agency.

8 SEC. 6. TARGET POPULATIONS.

9 (a) ELIGIBLE SCHOOLS, GRADES, AND AREAS.—An

10 eligible local educational agency may select a school or

11 program area for coordinated services if the project design

12 is of adequate size, scope, and quality to achieve projected

13 outcomes.

14 (b) ELIGIBLE STUDENTS.—Programs and services

15 shall be made available to all children and families in the

16 area to be served and shall, when appropriate, be paid on

17 a sliding scale.

18 SEC. 7. SPECIAL CONSIDERATION.

19 In making awards under this Act, the Secretary shall

20 give special consideration to—

21 (1) the geographic distribution of awards, in22 cluding urban, suburban, and rural districts;

23 (2) districts with concentrated pockets of educa24 tionally at-risk students;
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1 (3) local educational agencies with high propor2 tions of educationally at-risk students; and

3 (4) areas with a large number of single parent

4 or two-parent, working families.

5 SEC. 8. AUTHORIZATION.

6 There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out

7 the provisions of this Act for fiscal year 1994,

8 $300,000,000 of which $200,000,000 shall be allocated

9 for development grants and $100,000,000 shall be allo10 cated for implementation grants, and such sums as may

11 be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1995 through

12 2000.

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