ProGov21 Policy Library

Title IV of this act creates the Community Schools Incentive Initiative, which will award multi-year grants to create community schools. A community school is a public and private partnership in a public or charter school that coordinates educational, developmental, family, health,...

Most school districts do not have a coherent framework and strategy that lays out how the district and its community partners will work together to support student success. Community schools work to address this disconnect. A community school is a nexus of partnerships connecting...

This report articulates young people’s mandate to their government—local, state, and federal—to permanently end the school-to-prison-and-deportation pipeline and build a liberatory education system based on principles of inclusion, equity and racial justice. The key points of the...

Community schools represent a place-based strategy in which schools partner with community agencies and allocate resources to provide an “integrated focus on academics, health and social services, youth and community development, and community engagement.” Well-implemented community...