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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3545 
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 
SEPTEMBER 9, 2009 
Mr. HOYER (for himself, Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California, Mr. LOEBSACK, 
Mr. CONYERS, Ms. DELAURO, Ms. FUDGE, Mr. MASSA, Mr. SARBANES, 
Mrs. CAPPS, Mr. ELLSWORTH, Mr. SIRES, Ms. MARKEY of Colorado, Mr. 
FATTAH, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. BERMAN, Ms. CLARKE, Mr. HIMES, Mr. 
KENNEDY, 
Mr. 
MCGOVERN, 
Mr. 
STARK, 
Ms. 
BORDALLO, 
Ms. 
SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. HONDA, Mr. TONKO, Ms. NORTON, Mr. CARSON of 
Indiana, Ms. LINDA T. SA´NCHEZ of California, Mr. ELLISON, Ms. MAT-
SUI, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. COHEN, Mr. HARE, 
Ms. RICHARDSON, Mr. RODRIGUEZ, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Mr. SERRANO, 
Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. LUJA´N, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. OLVER, Mr. SABLAN, Mr. 
HEINRICH, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia, Mr. SESTAK, 
Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. SCHAUER, and Mr. RUSH) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor 
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, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Full-Service Commu-
nity Schools Act of 2009’’. 
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 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-
profit organizations, and State, local, and tribal gov-
ernments. 
(8) Engaging students as resources to their 
communities. 
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(9) Engaging the business community and 
other community organizations as partners in the 
development of full-service community schools. 
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 coordinate not less than 3 qualified 
existing services and provide not less than 2 qualified ad-
ditional services at 1 or more public elementary or sec-
ondary schools. 
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(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 and 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 coordinate and provide 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 demographic characteristics and 
needs of students, families, and community resi-
dents, the number of families and students to 
be served, and the frequency of services. 
(B) Yearly measurable performance goals 
for the program, including an increase in the 
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percentage of families and students targeted for 
services each year of the program and improved 
outcomes for students and families, particularly 
student academic achievement. 
(C) Performance measures to monitor 
progress toward attainment of the goals estab-
lished under subparagraph (B). 
(D) Qualified services, existing and addi-
tional, to be coordinated and provided by the el-
igible entity and its partner entities, including 
an explanation of why these services have been 
selected, and how they respond to specified 
needs. 
(E) Plans to ensure that each site has full- 
time coordination of qualified services at each 
full-service community school. 
(F) Planning, coordination, management, 
and oversight of qualified services at each 
school to be served, including the role of the 
school principal, partner entities, parents, and 
members of the community. 
(G) Funding sources for qualified services 
to be coordinated and provided at each school 
to be served, whether such funding is derived 
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from grants under this section or from other 
Federal, State, local, or private sources. 
(H) Plans for professional development for 
personnel managing, or coordinating or deliv-
ering qualified services at, the schools to be 
served. 
(I) Plans for joint utilization and mainte-
nance of school facilities by the eligible entity 
and its partner entities. 
(J) How the eligible entity and its partners 
will focus services on schools eligible for a 
schoolwide program under section 1114 of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
1965 (20 U.S.C. 6314). 
(K) Plans for periodic evaluation based 
upon attainment of the performance measures 
described in subparagraph (C). 
(L) How the provision and coordination of 
qualified services is expected to improve student 
academic achievement. 
(M) How the qualified services will meet 
the principles of effectiveness described in sub-
section (d). 
(6) A plan for sustainability. 
(d) PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVENESS.— 
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(1) IN
GENERAL.—For a program developed 
pursuant to this section to meet principles of effec-
tiveness, such program shall— 
(A) be based upon an assessment of objec-
tive data regarding the need for the establish-
ment of a full-service community school and 
qualified services at each school to be served 
and in the community involved; 
(B) be based upon an established set of 
performance measures aimed at ensuring the 
availability and effectiveness of high-quality 
services; and 
(C) if appropriate, be based upon scientif-
ically based research that provides evidence that 
the qualified services involved will help students 
meet State and local student academic achieve-
ment standards. 
(e) 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 school-wide program under sec-
tion 1114 of the Elementary and Secondary Edu-
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6314); 
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(2) demonstrate a record of effectiveness in co-
ordinating multiple qualified services; 
(3) will serve more than 1 full-service commu-
nity school as part of a community- or district-wide 
strategy; and 
(4) will be connected to a school and commu-
nity partnership group that brings together key 
stakeholders across sectors, such as the local edu-
cational agency, parents and neighborhood residents, 
youth, local government, institutions of higher edu-
cation, teacher unions, community-based organiza-
tions, business and civic groups, and others to im-
prove results for students and their families. 
(f) GRANT PERIOD.—Each grant awarded under this 
section shall be for a period of 5 years and may be renewed 
at the discretion of the Secretary based on demonstrated 
effectiveness in meeting performance goals and measure 
as described in subparagraphs (B) and (C) of subsection 
(c)(5). 
(g) MINIMUM AMOUNT.—The Secretary may not 
award a grant to an eligible entity under this section in 
an amount that is less than $75,000 for each year of the 
5-year grant period. 
(h) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
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(1) The term ‘‘additional services’’ means serv-
ices directly funded under this Act. 
(2) The term ‘‘eligible entity’’ means a consor-
tium of a local educational agency and 1 or more 
community-based organizations, nonprofit organiza-
tions, or other public or private entities. 
(3) The term ‘‘existing services’’ means services 
already being financed by Federal, State, local or 
private sources, or volunteer activities being sup-
ported by civic, business, faith-based, social, and 
other similar organizations. 
(4) The term ‘‘qualified services’’ means any of 
the following: 
(A) Early childhood education. 
(B) Remedial education activities and en-
richment activities. 
(C) Programs under the Head Start Act, 
including Early Head Start programs. 
(D) Programs that promote parental in-
volvement and family literacy, including the 
Reading First, Early Reading First, and Wil-
liam F. Goodling Even Start Family Literacy 
programs authorized in part B of title I of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
1965 (20 U.S.C. 6361 et seq.). 
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(E) Mentoring and other youth develop-
ment programs. 
(F) Parent leadership development activi-
ties. 
(G) Parenting education activities. 
(H) Child care services. 
(I) Community service and service learning 
opportunities. 
(J) Programs that provide assistance to 
students who have been truant, suspended, or 
expelled. 
(K) Job training and career counseling 
services. 
(L) Nutrition services. 
(M) Primary health and dental care. 
(N) Mental health counseling services. 
(O) Adult education, including instruction 
in English as a second language. 
(P) Other services consistent with this Act. 
SEC. 5. STATE PROGRAMS. 
(a) GRANTS.—The Secretary may award grants to 
State collaboratives to support the development of full- 
service community school programs in accordance with 
this section. 
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(b) USE OF FUNDS.—Grants awarded under this sec-
tion shall be used only for the following: 
(1) Planning, coordinating, and expanding the 
development of full-service community schools in the 
State, particularly schools in high-poverty local edu-
cational agencies. 
(2) Providing technical assistance and training 
for full-service community schools, including profes-
sional development for personnel and creation of 
data collection and evaluation systems. 
(3) Collecting, evaluating, and reporting data 
about the progress of full-service community schools. 
(4) Evaluating the impact of State and Federal 
policies and guidelines on the ability of eligible enti-
ties to integrate Federal and State programs at full- 
service community schools, and taking action to 
make necessary changes. 
(c) APPLICATION.—To seek a grant under this sec-
tion, a State collaborative shall submit an application to 
the Secretary at such time and in such manner as the 
Secretary may require. The Secretary shall require that 
each such application include the following: 
(1) A list of all governmental agencies and non-
profit organizations that will participate as members 
of the State collaborative. 
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(2) A description of the expertise of each mem-
ber of the State collaborative— 
(A) in coordinating Federal and State pro-
grams across multiple agencies; 
(B) in working with and developing the ca-
pacity of full-service community schools; and 
(C) in working with high-poverty schools 
and local educational agencies. 
(3) A comprehensive plan describing how the 
grant will be used to plan, coordinate, and expand 
the delivery of services at full-service community 
schools. 
(4) A comprehensive accountability plan that 
will be used to demonstrate effectiveness, including 
the measurable performance goals of the program 
and performance measures to monitor progress and 
assess services’ impact on students and families and 
academic achievement. 
(5) An explanation of how the State collabo-
rative will provide technical assistance and training, 
including professional development, for full-service 
community schools. 
(6) An explanation of how the State will collect 
and evaluate information on full-service community 
schools. 
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(d) GRANT PERIOD.—Each grant awarded under this 
section shall be for a period of 5 years. 
(e) MINIMUM AMOUNT.—The Secretary may not 
award a grant to a State collaborative under this section 
in an amount that is less than $500,000 for each year 
of the 5-year grant period. 
(f) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘State’’ includes the several 
States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth 
of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern 
Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Vir-
gin Islands, and any other territory or possession of 
the United States. 
(2) The term ‘‘State collaborative’’ means a col-
laborative of a State educational agency and not less 
than 2 other governmental agencies or nonprofit or-
ganizations that provide services to children and 
families. 
SEC. 6. ADVISORY COMMITTEE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is hereby established 
an advisory committee to be known as the ‘‘Full-Service 
Community Schools Advisory Committee’’ (in this section 
referred to as the ‘‘Advisory Committee’’). 
(b) DUTIES.—Subject to subsection (c), the Advisory 
Committee shall— 
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(1) consult with the Secretary on the develop-
ment and implementation of programs under this 
Act; 
(2) identify strategies to improve the coordina-
tion of Federal programs in support of full-service 
community schools; and 
(3) issue an annual report to the Congress on 
efforts under this Act, including a description of— 
(A) the results of local and national eval-
uation of such efforts; and 
(B) the scope of services being coordinated 
under this Act. 
(c) CONSULTATION.—In carrying out its duties under 
this section, the Advisory Committee shall consult annu-
ally with eligible entities awarded grants under section 4, 
State collaboratives awarded grants under section 5, and 
other entities with expertise in operating full-service com-
munity schools. 
(d) MEMBERS.—The Advisory Committee shall con-
sist of 5 members as follows: 
(1) The Secretary of Education (or the Sec-
retary’s delegate). 
(2) The Attorney General of the United States 
(or the Attorney General’s delegate). 
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(3) The Secretary of Agriculture (or the Sec-
retary’s delegate). 
(4) The Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices (or the Secretary’s delegate). 
(5) The Secretary of Labor (or the Secretary’s 
delegate). 
SEC. 7. GENERAL PROVISIONS. 
(a) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary, di-
rectly or through grants, shall provide such technical as-
sistance as may be appropriate to accomplish the purposes 
of this Act. 
(b) EVALUATIONS BY SECRETARY.—The Secretary 
shall conduct evaluations on the effectiveness of grants 
under sections 4 and 5 in achieving the purposes of this 
Act. 
(c) EVALUATIONS
BY GRANTEES.—The Secretary 
shall require each recipient of a grant under this Act— 
(1) to conduct periodic evaluations of the 
progress achieved with the grant toward achieving 
the purposes of this Act; 
(2) to use such evaluations to refine and im-
prove activities conducted with the grant and the 
performance measures for such activities; and 
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(3) to make the results of such evaluations pub-
licly available, including by providing public notice of 
such availability. 
(d) SUPPLEMENT, NOT SUPPLANT.—Funds made 
available to a grantee under this Act may be used only 
to supplement, and not supplant, any other Federal, State, 
or local funds that would otherwise be available to carry 
out the activities assisted under this Act. 
(e) MATCHING FUNDS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall require 
each recipient of a grant under this Act to provide 
matching funds from non-Federal sources in an 
amount determined under paragraph (2). 
(2) DETERMINATION OF AMOUNT OF MATCH.— 
(A) SLIDING SCALE.—Subject to subpara-
graph (B), the Secretary shall determine the 
amount of matching funds to be required of a 
grantee under this subsection based on a sliding 
fee scale that takes into account— 
(i) the relative poverty of the popu-
lation to be targeted by the grantee; and 
(ii) the ability of the grantee to obtain 
such matching funds. 
(B) MAXIMUM
AMOUNT.—The Secretary 
may not require any grantee under this section 
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to provide matching funds in an amount that 
exceeds the amount of the grant award. 
(3) IN-KIND
CONTRIBUTIONS.—The Secretary 
shall permit grantees under this section to match 
funds in whole or in part with in-kind contributions. 
(4) 
CONSIDERATION.—Notwithstanding 
this 
subsection, the Secretary shall not consider an appli-
cant’s ability to match funds when determining 
which applicants will receive grants under this Act. 
(f) SPECIAL RULE.—Entities receiving funds under 
this Act shall comply with all existing Federal statutes 
that prohibit discrimination. 
SEC. 8. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be appro-
priated to carry out this Act $200,000,000 for fiscal year 
2010 and such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal 
years 2011 through 2014. 
(b) ALLOCATION.—Of the amounts appropriated to 
carry out this Act for each fiscal year— 
(1) 75 percent shall be for section 4; 
(2) 20 percent shall be for section 5; and 
(3) of the remaining 5 percent, not less than 
$500,000 shall be for technical assistance under sec-
tion 7(a). 
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