I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3343 
To amend title V of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 
to encourage and support parent, family, and community involvement 
in schools, to provide needed integrated services and comprehensive sup-
ports to children, and to ensure that schools are centers of communities, 
for the ultimate goal of assisting students to stay in school, become 
successful learners, and improve academic achievement. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 24, 2009 
Mr. PAYNE (for himself, Mr. KILDEE, and Mr. SCOTT of Virginia) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
Labor 
A BILL 
To amend title V of the Elementary and Secondary Edu-
cation Act of 1965 to encourage and support parent, 
family, and community involvement in schools, to provide 
needed integrated services and comprehensive supports 
to children, and to ensure that schools are centers of 
communities, for the ultimate goal of assisting students 
to stay in school, become successful learners, and im-
prove academic achievement. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Keeping Parents and 
Communities Engaged Act’’ or the ‘‘Keeping PACE Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Research studies consistently show a posi-
tive relationship between parental involvement and 
student achievement. This relationship holds across 
families of all economic, racial/ethnic, and edu-
cational backgrounds and for students of all ages. 
(2) Educators recognize, on the basis of social 
science and common experience, that effective paren-
tal and community involvement is a critical element 
in children’s academic and social development. Pov-
erty, limited English proficiency, and varying cul-
tural expectations are among the biggest barriers to 
effective parental involvement in schools. 
(3) Schools with effective parent and commu-
nity involvement activities provide bridges between 
parents, community-based organizations, and schools 
to improve communication, information sharing, 
services, and comprehensive supports for children 
and families. 
(4) Educational research suggests that student 
achievement improves in environments where learn-
ing is a community value, and where schools have 
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the ability to address a broad range of educational 
needs for all students, such as in full-service commu-
nity schools. 
(5) Cross-sector community engagement of 
businesses, institutions of higher education, philan-
thropic organizations, school boards, family and care 
organizations, neighborhood and service organiza-
tions, after-school providers, and community-based 
organizations, is essential if schools are to ensure 
that all children meet college and work-ready stand-
ards. 
(6) More than 1,000,000 of the students who 
enter ninth grade do not receive a high school di-
ploma 4 years later and approximately 7,000 stu-
dents drop out of school each day, including a sig-
nificant percentage of students with the potential of 
high academic achievement. 
(7) Integrated services and comprehensive sup-
ports, including after-school and other services, are 
necessary components of effective, school-based ef-
forts to dramatically affect dropout prevention rates, 
increase graduation rates, and improve student 
achievement. In one national study, 98 percent of 
students receiving such services and supports stayed 
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in school, 89 percent had fewer suspensions, and 85 
percent of eligible seniors graduated. 
SEC. 3. OUTREACH AND COORDINATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title V of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7201 et 
seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘PART E—PARENT AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH 
AND ENGAGEMENT 
‘‘SEC. 5700. GRANTS AUTHORIZED. 
‘‘(a) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary shall award 
grants to States to enable the States to award sub-
grants— 
‘‘(1) on a competitive basis, to local educational 
agencies that receive assistance under part A of title 
I to enable such agencies to assist public elementary 
schools and public secondary schools served by such 
agencies to hire and maintain Parent and Commu-
nity Outreach Coordinators, pursuant to subpart 1; 
‘‘(2) on a competitive basis, to eligible entities 
to provide necessary integrated services and com-
prehensive supports to students and schools, pursu-
ant to subpart 2; and 
‘‘(3) to eligible entities to create schools as cen-
ters of communities, pursuant to subpart 3. 
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