I 
108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4585 
To authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants for the support 
of full-service community schools, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 16, 2004 
Mr. HOYER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants 
for the support of full-service community schools, and 
for other purposes. 
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 Commu-
nity Schools Act of 2004’’. 
SEC. 2. PURPOSES. 
The purposes of this Act are the following: 
(1) Providing support for the planning, imple-
mentation, and operation of full-service community 
schools.
(2) Improving the coordination, availability, and 
effectiveness of services for children and families. 
(3) Enabling principals and teachers to com-
plement and enrich efforts to help all children reach 
proficiency in reading and math by 2014. 
(4) Ensuring that children come to school ready 
to learn every day. 
(5) Enabling families to participate in the edu-
cation of their children. 
(6) Enabling the more efficient use of Federal, 
State, local, and private sector resources that serve 
children and families. 
(7) Facilitating the coordination of programs 
operated by nonprofit organizations and State, local, 
and tribal governments. 
SEC. 3. FULL-SERVICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL. 
For purposes of this Act, the term ‘‘full-service com-
munity school’’ means a public elementary or secondary 
school that— 
(1) participates in a community-based effort to 
coordinate 
educational, 
developmental, 
family, 
health, and other comprehensive services through 
community-based organizations and public and pri-
vate partnerships; and
(2) provides access to such services to students, 
families, and the community. 
SEC. 4. LOCAL PROGRAMS. 
(a) GRANTS.—The Secretary of Education (in this 
Act referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) may award grants to 
eligible entities to assist public elementary or secondary 
schools to function as full-service community schools. 
(b) USE OF FUNDS.—Grants awarded under this sec-
tion shall be used to provide or coordinate not less than 
3 qualified services at 1 or more public elementary or sec-
ondary schools. 
(c) APPLICATION.—To seek a grant under this sec-
tion, an eligible entity shall submit an application to the 
Secretary at such time and in such manner as the Sec-
retary may require. The Secretary shall require that each 
such application include the following: 
(1) A description of the eligible entity. 
(2) A list of partner entities that will assist the 
eligible entity to provide or coordinate qualified serv-
ices. 
(3) A memorandum of understanding between 
the eligible entity and each partner entity describing 
the role the partner entity will assume.
(4) A description of the capacity of the eligible 
entity to provide and coordinate qualified services at 
a full-service community school. 
(5) A comprehensive plan that includes descrip-
tions of the following: 
(A) The student, family, and school com-
munity to be served, including information 
about the number of students, families, and 
community residents to be served and the fre-
quency of services. 
(B) Existing qualified services available at 
each school to be served and in the community 
involved. 
(C) Qualified services to be provided or co-
ordinated by the eligible entity and its partner 
entities. 
(D) Coordination, management, and over-
sight of qualified services at each school to be 
served, including the role of the school prin-
cipal, the full-service community school coordi-
nator, parents, and members of the community. 
(E) Funding sources for qualified services 
at each school to be served, whether such fund-
ing is derived from grants under this section or