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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="9.9-107" title_number="9.9" title_name="Community Schools" subtitle_number="1">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This section does not apply to a community school that receives funding under § 5–223 of this article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A local school system shall make public school funding available to a community school.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Eligible interventions for which a community school may receive funding include academic services, parental involvement programs, physical and behavioral health services, and community involvement programs.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Academic services include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Academic support and enrichment activities;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Counseling;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Job training, internship opportunities, higher education advising, and career, apprenticeship, and employment opportunities;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Programs that provide assistance to students who are chronically absent, tardy, suspended, or expelled;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Specialized instructional support services; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>Early childhood education, including Head Start or Early Head Start.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Parental involvement programs include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Programs that promote and encourage parental involvement and family literacy;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Parent leadership development and advocacy activities; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Parenting education activities.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Physical and mental health services include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Mentoring and other youth development services, including after school and summer learning opportunities and services;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Juvenile justice system involvement prevention, reentry, rehabilitation, and restorative practices;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Home visitation services;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Developmentally appropriate physical education;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Nutrition services;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>Primary health and dental care; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>Mental health and counseling services.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Community involvement programs include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Service and service–learning opportunities;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Adult education, including English as a second language classes;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Homelessness prevention and permanent housing services; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Other services designed to meet the needs of the community school and the community as identified by the community school leadership team and in accordance with the plan developed under § 9.9–104(b) of this title.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>A community school or the community school coordinator may solicit the assistance and support of community partners when fulfilling the requirements of this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
