The Community Schools Act is enacted to provide a strategy to organize the resources of a community to ensure student success while addressing the needs, including cultural and linguistic needs, of the whole student from early childhood programs and voluntary public pre-kindergarten through high school graduation; to partner federal, state and local and tribal governments with community-based organizations to improve the coordination, delivery, effectiveness and efficiency of services provided to students and families; and to coordinate resources, in order to align and leverage community resources and integrate funding streams. History: Laws 2013, ch. 16, § 2; 2019, ch. 198, § 1. ANNOTATIONSThe 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, expanded the purpose of community schools to address the cultural and linguistic needs of students from early childhood programs and pre-kindergarten through high school graduation; after 'addressing the needs', added 'including cultural and linguistic needs', after 'whole student', added 'from early childhood programs and voluntary public pre-kindergarten through high school graduation', after 'state and local', deleted 'entities' and added 'and c needs', after 'whole student', added 'from early childhood programs and voluntary public pre-kindergarten through high school graduation', after 'state and local', deleted 'entities' and added 'and tribal governments', after 'with', deleted 'private', and after 'provided to', deleted 'children' and added 'students'.
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