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106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4891
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to ensure
that services for students are coordinated.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JULY 19, 2000
Ms. WOOLSEY (for herself and Mr. KIND) introduced the following bill; which
was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce
A BILL
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
of 1965 to ensure that services for students are coordinated.
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 ‘‘Child Opportunity
Zone Family Center Act of 2000’’.
SEC. 2. COORDINATED SERVICES.
Title XI of the Elementary and Secondary Education
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 8401 et seq.) is amended to read
as follows:
‘‘TITLE XI—COORDINATED
SERVICES
‘‘SEC. 11001. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.
‘‘(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following:
‘‘(1) Growing numbers of children are harmed
by influences outside of the classroom that increase
their risk of academic failure.
‘‘(2) Factors such as poor nutrition, unsafe liv-
ing conditions, physical and sexual abuse, family and
gang violence, inadequate health care, unemploy-
ment, lack of child care, and substance abuse harm
families, and negatively affect a child’s ability to
learn.
‘‘(3) Parents and other caregivers in today’s
high-pressure society often face heavy demands on
their time that affect their ability to adequately meet
all the needs of their children.
‘‘(4) Access to health and social service pro-
grams in a school-based or school-linked community
service center may make it easier for families to ad-
dress the basic physical and emotional needs of chil-
dren and parents.
‘‘(5) Services for families need to be more con-
venient and less fragmented and duplicative.
‘‘(6) Parents, school personnel, and service pro-
viders should have access to services and activities to
improve the education, health, mental health, safety
and economic well-being of children and their fami-
lies.
‘‘(7) School personnel, health care providers,
mental health care providers, child care providers,
juvenile justice workers and other family service pro-
viders could be of greater assistance to children and
their families if they had access to a single school-
based or school-linked community service center.
‘‘(8) Coordinating health and social services
with education will help to ensure that children come
to school ready to learn.
‘‘(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this title is to en-
courage eligible partnerships to establish or expand child
opportunity zone family centers in or near public elemen-
tary and secondary schools in order to provide students
and their families better access to coordinated services
which improve the education, health, mental health, safe-
ty, and economic well-being of students.
‘‘SEC. 11002. COORDINATED SERVICES.
‘‘(a) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.—A local educational
agency may use not more than 5 percent of the amount
of funds made available for transfer under section 14206
and a portion of funds awarded pursuant to a grant under
section 11003 for the development, or the implementation
or expansion, of a coordinated service project under this
section.
‘‘(b) APPLICATION.—Each local educational agency
desiring to use funds described in subsection (a) to carry
out this section shall submit an application to the Sec-
retary at such time, in such manner and accompanied by
such information as the Secretary may reasonably require.
‘‘(c) USES
OF FUNDS.—Funds described in sub-
section (a) may be used to plan, implement, or expand
activities which include—
‘‘(1) hiring a services coordinator;
‘‘(2) making minor renovations to existing
buildings;
‘‘(3) purchasing basic operating equipment;
‘‘(4) improving communications and informa-
tion-sharing among entities participating in the co-
ordinated services project; or
‘‘(5) providing training to teachers and appro-
priate personnel concerning the role of such teachers
and personnel in a coordinated services project.
‘‘SEC. 11003. GRANTS AUTHORIZED.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may award, on a
competitive basis, grants to eligible partnerships to pay
for the Federal share of the cost of establishing and ex-
panding child opportunity zone family centers.
‘‘(b) DURATION.—The Secretary shall award grants
under this section for periods of 5 years.
‘‘SEC. 11004. REQUIRED ACTIVITIES.
‘‘Each eligible partnership receiving a grant under
this title shall use the grant funds—
‘‘(1) in accordance with the needs assessment
described in section 11005(b)(1), to provide or link
children and their families with information, sup-
port, activities, or services in core areas consisting
of—
‘‘(A) education, such as child care and
education programs for children below the age
of compulsory school attendance, before- and
after-school care, and school age enrichment
and education support programs;
‘‘(B) health, such as primary care (includ-
ing prenatal care, well child care, and mental
health care), preventative health and safety pro-
grams, outreach and referral, screening and
health promotion, and enrollment in health in-
surance programs; and
‘‘(C) family support, such as adult edu-
cation and literacy programs, welfare-to-work-
programs, job training, parenting skills pro-
grams, assistance that supports healthy child
development, and access to basic needs, includ-
ing food and housing;
‘‘(2) to provide intensive, high-quality, research-
based instructional programs that—
‘‘(A) provide violence prevention education
for families and developmentally appropriate in-
structional services to children (including chil-
dren below the age of compulsory school attend-
ance), such as education and services on non-
violent conflict resolution, pro social skills and
behaviors, and other skills necessary for effec-
tively relating to others without violence; and
‘‘(B) provide effective strategies for nur-
turing and supporting the emotional, social, and
cognitive growth of children; and
‘‘(3) to provide training, information, and sup-
port to families to enable the families to participate
effectively in their children’s education, and to help
their children meet challenging standards, including
assisting families to—
‘‘(A) understand the educational account-
ability systems, including content standards,
performance standards, and local assessments,
in place for the State involved, the participating
local educational agency, and the participating
elementary school or secondary school;
‘‘(B) understand their children’s edu-
cational needs, their children’s educational per-
formance in comparison to State and local
standards, and the steps the school is taking to
address the children’s needs and to help the
children meet the standards; and
‘‘(C) communicate effectively with per-
sonnel responsible for providing educational
services to the families’ children, and to partici-
pate in the development, amendment, review,
and implementation of school-parent compacts,
parent involvement policies, and school plans.
‘‘SEC. 11005. APPLICATIONS.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Each eligible partnership desir-
ing a grant under this title shall submit an application
to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and con-
taining such information as the Secretary may require.
‘‘(b) CONTENTS.—Each application submitted pursu-
ant to subsection (a) shall—
‘‘(1) include a needs assessment, including a de-
scription of how the partnership will ensure that the
activities to be assisted under this title will be tai-
lored to meet the specific needs of the children and
families to be served;
‘‘(2) describe arrangements that have been for-
malized between the participating elementary school
or secondary school, and other partnership members;
‘‘(3) describe how the partnership will effec-
tively coordinate and utilize Federal, State, and local
educational agency sources of funding, including
funding provided under part I of title X and under
the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative (jointly
funded by the Departments of Education, Justice,
and Health and Human Services), that provide as-
sistance to families and their children in the areas
of job training, housing, justice, health, mental
health, child care, and social and human services;
‘‘(4) describe the partnership’s plan to—
‘‘(A) develop and carry out the activities
assisted under this part with extensive partici-
pation of parents, administrators, teachers,
pupil services personnel, social and human serv-
ice agencies, and community organizations and
leaders; and
‘‘(B) connect and integrate the activities
assisted under this title with the education re-
form efforts of the participating elementary
school or secondary school, and the partici-
pating local educational agency;
‘‘(5) describe the partnership’s strategy for pro-
viding information and assistance in a language and
form that families can understand, including how
the partnership will ensure that families of students
with limited English proficiency, or families of stu-
dents with disabilities, are effectively involved, in-
formed, and assisted;
‘‘(6) describe how the partnership will collect
and analyze data, and will utilize specific perform-
ance measures and indicators to—
‘‘(A) determine the impact of activities as-
sisted under this title as described in section
11008(a); and
‘‘(B) improve the activities assisted under
this title; and
‘‘(7) describe how the partnership will protect
the privacy of families and their children partici-
pating in the activities assisted under this title.
‘‘SEC. 11006. FEDERAL SHARE.
‘‘The Federal share of the cost of establishing and
expanding child opportunity zone family centers—
‘‘(1) for the first year for which an eligible
partnership receives assistance under this title shall
not exceed 90 percent;
‘‘(2) for the second such year, shall not exceed
80 percent;
‘‘(3) for the third such year, shall not exceed 70
percent;
‘‘(4) for the fourth such year, shall not exceed
60 percent; and
‘‘(5) for the fifth such year, shall not exceed 50
percent.
‘‘SEC. 11007. CONTINUATION OF FUNDING.
‘‘Each eligible partnership that receives a grant
under this title shall, after the third year for which the
partnership receives funds through the grant, be eligible
to continue to receive the funds if the Secretary deter-
mines that the partnership has made significant progress
in meeting the performance measures used for the part-
nership’s local evaluation under section 11008(a)(4).
‘‘SEC. 11008. EVALUATIONS AND REPORTS.
‘‘(a) LOCAL EVALUATIONS.—Each partnership re-
ceiving funds under this title shall conduct annual evalua-
tions and submit to the Secretary reports containing the
results of the evaluations. The reports shall include—