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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1677
To provide grants to States and local entities to integrate education, medical,
and social and human services to at-risk children.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL 2, 1993
Mr. JOHNSTON of Florida (for himself, Mr. GIBBONS, Mr. PETERSON of Flor-
ida, Mr. BACCHUS of Florida, Mrs. THURMAN, Mr. PETERSON of Min-
nesota, Mr. ROMERO-BARCELO´, Mr. HUGHES, Mr. HASTINGS, Mr.
MORAN, and Mrs. COLLINS of Michigan) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor
A BILL
To provide grants to States and local entities to integrate
education, medical, and social and human services to
at-risk children.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Full-Service Schools
Act’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.
(a) CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS.—The Congress finds
that—
(1) one in five children entering school in 1993
lives in poverty;
(2) students from poor families are three times
more likely to drop out of school than students from
more advantaged homes;
(3) nearly 40 percent of the females who drop
out of school do so as a result of pregnancy;
(4) in the past two decades, the percentage of
women with children under the age of six who are
working or seeking employment outside the home
has nearly doubled;
(5) more than 8 million children in this country
have no form of health insurance which may lead to
untreated conditions, unnecessary diseases and
death;
(6) more than 70 percent of the children who
need psychiatric treatment do not receive services;
(7) children who are victims of child abuse, pov-
erty, malnutrition, lack of health care, alcohol and
drug abuse are at risk for failure;
(8) without health and social intervention, at-
risk children are often unable to improve academic
performance; and
(9) to obtain improvements in the educational
system, an integrated system which includes com-
(1) assist Federal, State, and local agencies in
developing, implementing, and evaluating service in-
tegration programs under this Act;
(2) to the greatest extent possible, coordinate
agency resources and funding allowing for the con-
solidation of Federal categorical programs, when re-
quests for such waivers are made;
(3) establish and maintain a national data base
that includes the collaborative efforts of the Govern-
ment, the States, local entities, and private entities
to serve at-risk children;
(4) make grants to the States to develop an
interagency work group and fund local efforts to in-
tegrate services for at-risk youth and their families;
(5) determine the amounts of each grant by
considering how many local project sites the State
interagency group can reasonably target with not
more than $200,000 allocated to a site; and
(6) waive certain Federal requirements that im-
pede collaborative efforts if such waivers will result
in a more efficient use of resources.
(c) FISCAL AGENT.—The Secretary of Education
shall act as the fiscal agent for the Group.
SEC. 4. STATE ELIGIBILITY.
To be eligible to receive a grant under this Act, a
State shall—
(1) establish a State interagency work group
between, at a minimum, the departments at the
State level that provide public education and health
and human services;
(2) develop preservice and inservice training
that assists staff members to understand the com-
munities in which they work and the full array of re-
sources that are available to help at-risk children
and their families;
(3) require equal financial or in-kind contribu-
tions by the departments referred to in paragraph
(1);
(4) state as a goal the integration of existing
funding sources from the departments represented;
(5) designate a fiscal agent to be responsible for
the receipt and disbursement of Federal funds;
(6) provide assurances that successful programs
will be used as models and that information regard-
ing program successes are disseminated throughout
the State; and
(7) assist local entities in developing inter-
agency agreements at the local level.
SEC. 5. LOCAL ELIGIBILITY.
To be eligible to receive a grant under this Act, a
local entity shall—
(1) develop a community planning process that
includes—
(A) parents and family members;
(B) local school officials;
(C) officials from institutions of higher
education if such institutions are located in the
local area;
(D) public and private nonprofit organiza-
tions that provide health care, education, em-
ployment training services, child protective serv-
ices or other human services; and
(E) teachers selected by a local teacher as-
sociation;
(2) develop mandatory services as recommended
by the planning group under paragraph (1);
(3) if located in a city with a population of
100,000 or more individuals—
(A) establish a local interagency work
group between a local educational agency eligi-
ble for funds for chapter 1 of title I of the Ele-
mentary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
and, at a minimum, 1 nonprofit community-
based organization which has provided social
services to low-income, at-risk youth and their
families; and
(B) include parents in the operation and
governance of the local interagency work group;
(4) require equal financial or in-kind contribu-
tions of the local educational agency and entities
represented;
(5) give an assurance that such entity shall
make a reasonable effort to initiate structural re-
form; and
(6) designate a fiscal agent to receive funds
from the State under this Act.
SEC. 6. APPLICATIONS.
(a) STATE APPLICATIONS.—(1) A State that desires
to receive a grant under this Act shall submit an applica-
tion to the Federal Interagency Work Group in such form
and containing such information as the Federal Inter-
agency Work Group may reasonably require and which in-
cludes—
(A) assurances that the eligibility requirements
under section 4 are or shall be met; and
(B) program goals and objectives, including an
approximation of use for the number of project sites
per State.
(2) The Federal Interagency Work Group shall give
priority consideration to States that include in the State
interagency work group, nonprofit agencies, and private
profit agencies that have worked with disadvantaged chil-
dren and their families.
(b) LOCAL APPLICATIONS.—A local entity that de-
sires to receive a grant under this Act shall submit an
application to the State interagency work group in such
form and containing such information as the State may
reasonably require and which includes—
(A) assurances that the eligibility requirements
under section 5 are or shall be met; and
(B) specifications regarding the targeted areas,
goals of the community, interim progress goals and
the intended outcomes.
SEC. 7. GRANT LIMITATIONS.
(a) STATE LIMITATION.—A State interagency group
that receives funds under this Act may not use more than
$100,000 or not more than 3 percent, whichever is less,
of such funds for administrative and staff costs to estab-
lish an interagency work group. The balance of such funds
shall be distributed to local entities.
(b) LOCAL LIMITATION.—A local educational agency
that receives funds under this Act may not use more than
5 percent of such funds for administrative and staff costs
to establish an interagency work group and not more than
$200,000 per site.
SEC. 8. PROGRAM ACTIVITIES.
(a) IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS.—A local entity that
receives funds under this Act shall develop or expand pro-
grams that are designed to improve educational perform-
ance by—
(1) reducing school dropout rates;
(2) reducing teenage pregnancy rates;
(3) increasing the number of students who re-
turn to school after dropping out;
(4) improving access to primary health care for
families and their children;
(5) increasing adult/family literacy; or
(6) reducing the number of children in unsuper-
vised settings before and after school, holidays, and
during the summer months.
(b) OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES.—A local entity that re-
ceives funds under this Act may develop a variety of pro-
grams to serve the comprehensive needs of students, in-
cluding—
(1) job training and employment services;
(2) homework assistance and after school pro-
grams;
(3) mental health and family counseling;
(4) nutrition education and services;
(5) health care services;
(6) bilingual education programs;
(7) parental training programs; and
(8) adult literacy programs.
SEC. 9. REPORTS.
(a) LOCAL REPORTS.—A local interagency work
group that receives funds under this Act shall submit to
the State interagency work group an annual report that
describes and evaluates the services provided, including
costs and benefits of services, including progress toward
meeting goals and revised objectives.
(b) STATE REPORTS.—A State interagency work
group that receives funds under this Act shall submit to
the Federal Interagency Work Group a report not later
than the end of the second calendar year during which
funds are received that evaluates the effectiveness of local
programs in developing and maintaining integrated serv-
ices for at-risk children.
(c) FEDERAL REPORTS.—The Federal Interagency
Work Group that receives funds under this Act shall sub-
mit to the Congress a report not later than three years
after the date of the enactment of this Act that includes
a detailed analysis of student outcomes (such as dropout
rates, academic performance, and usage of drug and alco-
hol) and systems outcomes (effectiveness of cooperative
agreements between education and service agencies).
SEC. 10. DEFINITIONS.
For purposes of this Act—
(1) the term ‘‘at-risk children’’ means individ-
uals from birth to 18 years of age, who attend a
public school where 75 percent or more (for elemen-
tary) and 60 percent or more (for secondary) of the
students are eligible for the free and reduced price
lunch program, or are Native Americans attending
schools where the student population is composed of
a majority of Native Americans;
(2) the term ‘‘local entity’’ means a local edu-
cational agency and a community-based organization
as defined in section 1471 of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965; and
(3) the term ‘‘State’’ has the same meaning as
such term in section 1471 of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965.
SEC. 11. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There are authorized to be appropriated $72,000,000
for each of the fiscal years 1994, 1995, and 1996 to carry
out the programs under this Act.
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