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The Every Student Succeeds Act, Title IV:Opportunities for
Community-School Partnerships
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Housekeeping Notes
THE EVERY STUDENT SUCCEEDS
ACT, TITLE IV: 21ST CENTURY
SCHOOLS
www.communityschools.org
Mary Kingston Roche, Coalition for Community Schools
Kelly Vaillancourt Strobach, National Association
of School Psychologists
Soncia Coleman, United Way Worldwide
Erik Peterson, Afterschool Alliance
March 29, 2016
ABOUT THE COALITION
• Established in 1997
• Housed at the Institute for Educational Leadership
• Alliance of over 200 national, state and local organizations
• Our partners span the sectors of education K-16, youth
development, community planning and development, family
support, health and human services, government and
philanthropy as well as national, state, and local community
school networks
4www.communityschools.org
MANY PARTNERS, ONE VISION
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TITLE IV: 21ST CENTURY SCHOOLS
Community Schools Highlights:
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• Full-Service Community Schools
• Promise Neighborhoods
• Student Support and Enrichment Grant
• 21st Century Community Learning Centers
• Statewide Family Engagement Centers
KEY LANGUAGE
• School conditions for student learning
• Needs assessments
• Well-rounded learning, experiential learning
• Coordination of resources and programs
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TIMELINE & IMPLEMENTATION
• Signed into law (Dec 2015); regulations in 2016
• Current waivers would expire July 31, 2016
• New provisions go into effect for 2017-18 school year
• 2016-17 school year could be ‘soft launch’ of new
elements
• FY16 competitive funding will flow through current law
construct; FY17 dollars will flow through ESSA construct
(in schools for 17-18 school year)
FAMILY ENGAGEMENT
• The Statewide Family Engagement Centers (SFECs)
grant program is included in ESSA to help states and
school districts better support schools and educators
to engage with families
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FAMILY ENGAGEMENT
• Supporting schools and nonprofit organizations in providing professional
development for local educational agency and school personnel
regarding parent and family engagement strategies
• Collaborating, or providing subgrants to schools to enable such schools
to collaborate, with community-based or other organizations or
employers with a record of success in improving and increasing parent
and family engagement
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Use of funds:
STUDENT SUPPORT AND ACADEMIC
ENRICHMENT GRANT (SSAEG)
Title IV Part A
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School Psychologists and Community Schools
School psychologists are uniquely trained to foster safe and
supportive learning environments, and deliver high quality academic,
behavioral, social, emotional, and mental health services to ensure all
students have the support they need to be successful in school, at
home, and throughout life.
We can’t do this alone!
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• Providing a full continuum of supports (before, during, and after the
school day) requires genuine collaboration with community
agencies/providers
• Community partnerships can fill critical gaps in available resources
needed to improve school and student outcomes
• Community schools help support the needs of the community as a
whole
General Overview
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• LEAs must engage multiple stakeholders in application development
– Specifically references specialized instructional support personnel and
community based organizations
– Opportunity to improve effective collaboration and integrate service delivery
• Schools receiving more than $30,000 must do a needs assessment
Purpose is to increase capacity of States, LEAs, schools, and communities to:
• Provide students with a well-rounded education
• Improve school conditions for student learning
• Improve effective use of technology
State Use of Funds
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• Identifying and eliminating barriers to effective coordination and integration
of services and funding streams
• Helping LEAs build capacity
• Disseminating best practices
Available: http://bit.ly/1Si8cDD
LEA Use of Funds
Well-Rounded Educational Opportunities (20% of funds)
Safe and Healthy Students (20% of funds)
Effective Use of Technology (portion of funds)
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• Increasing access to STEM education
• Programs that integrate multiple disciplines (e.g. math and music)
• Accelerated learning opportunities
• Comprehensive school based mental health services
• Includes school-community partnerships
• Comprehensive school safety efforts (e.g. school climate, crisis
response, violence prevention)
• Site Resource Coordinator
• Personalized learning opportunities
• Blended learning strategies
• Providing rural, remote, or underserved areas with high quality digital
learning opportunities
Challenges to Success
• Inauthentic/sporadic collaboration among stakeholders
• Lack of integration with other school improvement efforts
• Focus on ‘quick fix’ instead of sustainable change
• Competing Political Priorities: Funding:
– FY17- Authorized at $1.65 Billion, Formula Grant
– FY17 President’s Request=$500 million, Competitive Grant
• Wake County Schools, NC
Fully Funded: $3.1 million
President Request: $963,000
• Numerous districts “lose”
It is imperative that we all work together toward our shared goals
to ensure adequate funding and successful implementation
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Soncia Coleman, Director, Public Policy & Advocacy
The Every Student Succeeds ActGrant Programs for Community-Based
Nonprofits
What Do We Do?
• Identify critical community needs
• Invest in community solutions
• Run programs
• Mobilize volunteers
• Convene partners across sectors
• Activate advocates
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Role of Community-Based Organizations
• Schools can’t do it alone!
• We provide critical services that are essential to academic success.
• We need resources to do our work.
• We are more efficient and effective when we coordinate services
within our communities.
• We are more effective when we are integrated into the “system.”
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Programs
Full-Service Community Schools
Promise Neighborhoods
21st Century Community Learning Centers
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Community Schools and Promise Neighborhood Grant
Basics
• Community Schools- Nonprofits must apply in consortium with at
least one LEA. At least 10 grants per FY. Minimum grant is $75k for
each year of grant period.
• Promise Neighborhoods- Nonprofits must apply in a formal
partnership with a high-need LEA, IHE, local elected official, or
tribe. At least three grants per FY.
• Five year grant period for both programs. May be extended for an
additional two years
• Both programs have a matching requirement. Amount depends on
program
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The Afterschool Alliance
1 Policy & Advocacy 2 Research 3 Field-Building
• National policy
o Families &
children; STEM
• Advocacy day on
Capitol Hill
• Lights On Afterschool
• Translate &
synthesize
research
• Issue briefs &
reports
• Collect data
• 48 state networks
• Partnerships for
policy, research, &
practice
• Best practices &
models
• Webinars, blogs,
toolkits, & other
resources
Title IV Part B: 21st CCLC Snapshot
• 2 million children served annually grades Pre K thru 12
• 1 in 3 student attendees are Hispanic/Latino
• 1 in 4 student attendees are African American
• 73% of regular student attendees participate in the F/R Lunch program
• 44,983 organizations partnering with afterschool programs
• 11,040 school-based and community centers
• 9 in 10 centers located in schools
• 9 avg. number of partner organizations per grantee
Title IV Part B: 21st CCLC
21st CCLC role in Community Schools
• Provides funding for afterschool, before school
and summer learning program components of
community schools
• Prioritizes school-community partnerships and
communities with highest need
21st CCLC in ESSA: What’s new?
• Based largely on
bipartisan
Afterschool for
America’s Children
Act (S. 308)
• Strengthens hands-on, experiential learning;
STEM, CTE; physical activity & nutrition
education, financial literacy, environmental
literacy
21st CCLC in ESSA: What else is new?
• Increases PD/TA support
through external
organizations
• Provides accountability
measures that go beyond
test scores
• Maintains formula grants
to states
• Allows limited expanded
learning programming
21st CCLC in ESSA: Funding
$0
$200,000,000
$400,000,000
$600,000,000
$800,000,000
$1,000,000,000
$1,200,000,000
$1,400,000,000
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TO-DO LIST
• Get involved in the LEA planning process for the
Student Support and Academic Enrichment block grant
& ensure continuous engagement
• Connect with your allies & organize a coalition of
organizations in your district that play a leading role in
community-school partnerships
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• Contact your State Department of Education to get
involved in the conversations/any taskforces for state
plans
District Level:
State Level:
TO-DO LIST (CONT.)
• Share with your superintendent the success you’re
seeing at the school level through results-focused
school-community partnerships
• Describe the alignment between the community school
strategy and the goals articulated in Title IV & how you
& allied organizations can contribute to these goals
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District Level:
COALITION ESSA RESOURCES
• Check out our ESSA resources at
http://www.communityschools.org/policy_advocacy/def
ault.aspx
• Includes ESSA webinars #1 (Overview) and #2 (Title I)
• Coalition networks: State Policy Network,
Superintendents Leadership Council, United Way-
Community Schools Network, Coordinators Network,
Funders Network
• Other resources including FAQ’s, research/results,
toolkits, templates at www.communityschools.org
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NATIONAL FORUM 2016
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#CSrising
THANK YOU!
Mary Kingston Roche
Coalition for Community Schools
Kelly Vaillancourt Strobach
National Association of School Psychologists
Soncia Coleman
United Way Worldwide
Erik Peterson
Afterschool Alliance
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