I 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6504 
To authorize grants to local educational agencies to develop and implement 
coordinated services programs. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 15, 2008 
Ms. WOOLSEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and Labor 
A BILL 
To authorize grants to local educational agencies to develop 
and implement coordinated services programs. 
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 ‘‘Coordinate to Educate 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress makes the following 
findings: 
(1) Growing numbers of children live in an en-
vironment of social and economic conditions that 
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greatly increase their risk of academic failure when 
they become students. 
(2) Many academically at-risk students suffer 
the effects of inadequate nutrition and health care, 
lack of child care, overcrowded and unsafe living 
conditions and homelessness, family and gang vio-
lence, substance abuse, sexual abuse and child 
abuse, involuntary migration and limited English 
proficiency that often create severe barriers to learn-
ing the knowledge and skills needed to become lit-
erate, independent and productive citizens. 
(3) Almost half of all children and youths live 
in a single parent family for some period of their 
lives, while many others live in families with two 
full-time working parents, greatly reducing parental 
involvement in their education. 
(4) Services for at-risk students are often frag-
mented, inconvenient, expensive, overregulated, inef-
fective and duplicative, and focused on only a single 
narrow problem without meeting the needs of the 
child and the family. 
(5) School personnel, parents, and support serv-
ice providers often lack knowledge of, and access to, 
available services for at-risk students and their fami-
lies in the community, are constrained by bureau-
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cratic obstacles from providing the services most 
needed, and have few resources or incentives to co-
ordinate services and make them accessible. 
(6) Service providers, such as teachers, social 
workers, health care and child care providers, juve-
nile justice workers and others, are often trained in 
separate institutions, practice in separate agencies, 
and pursue separate professional activities that pro-
vide little support for coordination and integration of 
services. 
(7) Coordination and integration of services for 
at-risk students emphasizing prevention and early 
intervention offer a greater opportunity to break the 
cycle that leads to academic failure, leaving school, 
low-skill levels, unemployment and low income. 
(8) Coordination of services is cost effective for 
schools and support agencies because it reduces du-
plication, improves quality of services, and sub-
stitutes prevention for expensive crisis interventions, 
while ensuring that students are ready to learn when 
they are in the classroom. 
(b) PURPOSES.—It is the purpose of this Act to es-
tablish a program of grants to local education agencies 
to improve students’ educational performances by— 
(1) removing barriers to their learning; 
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(2) coordinating and enhancing the effective-
ness of support services; 
(3) making support services available, afford-
able, and convenient for those who need them; 
(4) replicating and disseminating successful 
high quality coordinated service programs; 
(5) increasing parental involvement in edu-
cation; 
(6) improving the capacity of school and sup-
port service personnel to collaborate; 
(7) integrating services, regulations, data bases, 
eligibility procedures and funding sources whenever 
possible; and 
(8) focusing school and community resources on 
prevention and early intervention strategies to ad-
dress student needs and to ensure that students are 
ready to learn when they are in the classroom. 
SEC. 3. GRANT AUTHORIZATION. 
The Secretary of Education is authorized to make de-
velopment and implementation grants to local education 
agencies to develop and implement coordinated service 
programs. 
SEC. 4. DEVELOPMENT GRANTS. 
(a) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to receive a grant 
under this section, a local educational agency shall— 
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