2023 Tennessee Code › Title 49 - EDUCATION (§§ 49-1-NEW — 49-50-1703) › Chapter 6 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 49-6-101 — 49-6-8106) › Part 24 - TENNESSEE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS ACT (§§ 49-6-2401 — 49-6-2410) › Section 49-6-2403 - Part definitions

As used in this part:
(1)
"Community consortium" means a partnership established between an LEA and one (1) or more community partners for purposes of establishing, operating, and sustaining a community school;
(2)
"Community partner" means a provider of one (1) or more community services or a community organization or for-profit or nonprofit entity with a desire to improve conditions in the community;
(3)
"Community school" means a public and private partnership to coordinate educational, developmental, family, health, and before-school and after-school-care programs during school and nonschool hours for students, families, and local communities at a public school with the objectives of improving academic achievement, reducing absenteeism, building stronger relationships between schools, students, parents, and communities, and improving the skills, capacity, and well-being of the surrounding community residents; and
(4)
"Community services" include:
(A)
Primary medical and dental care that is available to students and community residents;
(B)
Mental health prevention and treatment services that are available to students and community residents;
(C)
Academic-enrichment activities designed to promote a student's cognitive development and provide opportunities to practice and apply academic skills;
(D)
Programs designed to increase school attendance, including reducing early chronic absenteeism rates;
(E)
Youth development programs designed to promote young people's social, emotional, physical, and moral development, including arts, sports, physical fitness, youth leadership, community service, and service-learning opportunities;
(F)
Early childhood education, including the voluntary pre-K, Head Start and Early Head Start programs;
(G)
Programs designed to:
(i)
Facilitate parental involvement in, and engagement with, their children's education, including parental activities that involve supporting, monitoring, and advocating for their children's education;
(ii)
Promote parental leadership in the life of the school; and
(iii)
Build parenting skills;
(H)
School-age child-care services, including before-school and after-school services and full-day programming that operates during school holidays, summers, vacations, and weekends;
(I)
Programs that provide assistance to students who have been truant, suspended, or expelled and that offer multiple pathways to high school graduation or obtainment of a high school equivalency credential approved by the state board of education;
(J)
Youth and adult job-training services and career-counseling services;
(K)
Nutrition-education services;
(L)
Adult education, including instruction in English as a second language, adult literacy, computer literacy, financial literacy, and hard-skills training; and
(M)
Programs that provide remedial education and enrichment activities.
Amended by 2023 Tenn. Acts, ch. 114, s 25, eff. 7/1/2023.
Added by 2014 Tenn. Acts, ch. 968,s 4, eff. 5/19/2014.