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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

www.communityschools.org 5

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

rochem@iel.org

Kelly Vaillancourt Strobach

National Association of School Psychologists

kvaillancourt@naspweb.org

Soncia Coleman

United Way Worldwide

soncia.coleman@uww.unitedway.org

Erik Peterson

Afterschool Alliance

epeterson@afterschoolalliance.org

35www.communityschools.org