I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2323 
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 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 
MAY 15, 2007 
Mr. HOYER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Education and Labor 
A BILL 
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 
of 1965 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 2007’’. 
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SEC. 2. FULL-SERVICE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS. 
Title IV of the Elementary and Secondary Education 
Act of 1965 is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘PART D—FULL-SERVICE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS 
‘‘SEC. 4401. PURPOSES. 
‘‘The purposes of this part 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 fami-
lies. 
‘‘(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 more efficient use of Federal, 
State, local, and private sector resources that serve 
children and families. 
‘‘(7) Facilitating the coordination of programs 
operated by community-based organizations, non-
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profit organizations, and State, local, and tribal gov-
ernments. 
‘‘(8) Engaging students as resources to their 
communities. 
‘‘(9) Engaging the business community and 
other community organizations as partners in the 
development of full-service community schools. 
‘‘SEC. 4402. FULL-SERVICE COMMUNITY SCHOOL. 
‘‘For purposes of this part, 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 stu-
dents, families, and the community. 
‘‘SEC. 4403. LOCAL PROGRAMS. 
‘‘(a) GRANTS.—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 
section shall be used to coordinate or provide not less than 
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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 coordinate or provide qualified 
services. 
‘‘(3) A memorandum of understanding between 
the eligible entity and all partner entities describing 
the role the partner entities 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 de-
scriptions of the following: 
‘‘(A) The student, family, and school com-
munity to be served, including information 
about the demographic characteristics and 
needs of students, families, and community resi-
dents, the number of individuals to be served, 
and the frequency of services. 
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‘‘(B) Qualified services to be provided or 
coordinated by the eligible entity and its part-
ner entities and how these services will meet the 
needs of students and their families. 
‘‘(C) Planning, coordination, management, 
and oversight of qualified services at each 
school to be served, including the role of the 
school principal, the full-service community 
school coordinator, partner entities, parents, 
and members of the community. 
‘‘(D) Funding sources for qualified services 
at each school to be served, whether such fund-
ing is derived from grants under this section or 
from other Federal, State, local, or private 
sources. 
‘‘(E) Plans for professional development 
for personnel managing, or coordinating or de-
livering qualified services at, the schools to be 
served. 
‘‘(F) Plans for joint utilization and mainte-
nance of school facilities by the eligible entity 
and its partner entities. 
‘‘(G) How the eligible entity and its part-
ners will focus services on schools eligible for a 
schoolwide program under section 1114. 
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‘‘(6) Identification of principles of effectiveness 
that are based on— 
‘‘(A) an assessment of objective data re-
garding the need for the establishment of a full- 
service community school and qualified services 
at each school to be served and in the commu-
nity involved; 
‘‘(B) an established set of performance 
measures aimed at ensuring the availability and 
effectiveness of high-quality services; and 
‘‘(C) if appropriate, scientifically-based re-
search that provides evidence that the qualified 
services involved will help students meet State 
and local student academic achievement stand-
ards. 
‘‘(7) A strategy for developing a plan for sus-
tainability. 
‘‘(d) PRIORITY.—In awarding grants under this sec-
tion, the Secretary shall give priority to eligible entities 
that— 
‘‘(1) will serve 2 or more full-service community 
schools eligible for a schoolwide program under sec-
tion 1114; 
‘‘(2) demonstrate a record of effectiveness in 
coordinating multiple qualified services; and 
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