text: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
  
      This Act may be cited as the ``Coordinate to Educate Act''.
  
  SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.
  
      (a) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
              (1) Growing numbers of children live in an environment of 
          social and economic conditions that greatly increase their risk 
          of academic failure when they become students.
              (2) Many academically at-risk students suffer the effects 
          of inadequate nutrition and health care, lack of child care, 
          overcrowded and unsafe living conditions and homelessness, 
          family and gang violence, substance abuse, sexual abuse and 
          child abuse, involuntary migration and limited English 
          proficiency that often create severe barriers to learning the 
          knowledge and skills needed to become literate, independent and 
          productive citizens.
              (3) Almost half of all children and youths live in a single 
          parent family for some period of their lives, while many others 
          live in families with two full-time working parents, greatly 
          reducing parental involvement in their education.
              (4) Services for at-risk students are often fragmented, 
          inconvenient, expensive, overregulated, ineffective and 
          duplicative, and focused on only a single narrow problem 
          without meeting the needs of the child and the family.
              (5) School personnel, parents, and support service 
          providers often lack knowledge of, and access to, available 
          services for at-risk students and their families in the 
          community, are constrained by bureaucratic obstacles from 
          providing the services most needed, and have few resources or 
          incentives to coordinate services and make them accessible.
              (6) Service providers, such as teachers, social workers, 
          health care and child care providers, juvenile justice workers 
          and others, are often trained in separate institutions, 
          practice in separate agencies, and pursue separate professional 
          activities that provide little support for coordination and 
          integration of services.
              (7) Coordination and integration of services for at-risk 
          students emphasizing prevention and early intervention offer a 
          greater opportunity to break the cycle that leads to academic 
          failure, leaving school, low-skill levels, unemployment and low 
          income.
              (8) Coordination of services is cost effective for schools 
          and support agencies because it reduces duplication, improves 
          quality of services, and substitutes prevention for expensive 
          crisis interventions, while ensuring that students are ready to 
          learn when they are in the classroom.
      (b) Purposes.--It is the purpose of this Act to establish a program 
  of grants to local education agencies to improve students' educational 
  performances by--
              (1) removing barriers to their learning;
              (2) coordinating and enhancing the effectiveness of support 
          services;
              (3) making support services available, affordable, and 
          convenient for those who need them;
              (4) replicating and disseminating successful high quality 
          coordinated service programs;
              (5) increasing parental involvement in education;
              (6) improving the capacity of school and support service 
          personnel to collaborate;
              (7) integrating services, regulations, data bases, 
          eligibility procedures and funding sources whenever possible; 
          and
              (8) focusing school and community resources on prevention 
          and early intervention strategies to address student needs and 
          to ensure that students are ready to learn when they are in the 
          classroom.
  
  SEC. 3. GRANT AUTHORIZATION.
  
      The Secretary of Education is authorized to make development and 
  implementation grants to local education agencies to develop and 
  implement coordinated service programs.
  
  SEC. 4. DEVELOPMENT GRANTS.
  
      (a) Eligibility.--To be eligible to receive a grant under this 
  section, a local educational agency shall--
              (1) plan to collaborate with health and social service 
          agencies to develop a program of school-linked integrated 
          service for children and families on or near a school site; or
              (2) offer some coordinated services, but be able to 
          demonstrate a need for the expansion of services.
      (b) Duration.--Grants under this section may be for up to 3 years 
  duration, subject to providing the Secretary with annual evidence of 
  satisfactory progress towards the achievement of a plan for a self-
  sufficient coordinated service program.
      (c) Applications.--A local educational agency that wishes to 
  receive a grant under this section shall submit an application which 
  identifies--
              (1) the need for coordinated services among all or some of 
          the students of a local educational agency;
              (2) the proposed membership of a collaborative which will 
          be formed to achieve broad-based coordinated services, 
          including representatives from the appropriate levels of all 
          sectors and services necessary to achieve broad-based 
          coordinated services, including representatives of children and 
          families;
              (3) the objectives of the collaboration; and
              (4) performance measurements.
      (d) Use of Funds.--Grants awarded under this section shall be used 
  to--
              (1) plan and hold regular meetings of the collaborative;
              (2) identify barriers to learning experienced by students 
          in the local educational agency that stem from factors external 
          to the public school system, including poor health, physical 
          and sexual abuse, poor nutrition, inadequate housing, lack of 
          appropriate childcare and lack of appropriate preschool and 
          before and after school care;
              (3) assess the availability of currently existing social 
          service programs which could help to alleviate these barriers;
              (4) assess the availability of local, State and private 
          funds, the redirection of existing funds and the use of in-kind 
          services;
              (5) assess the feasibility of a sliding scale fee for 
          services that will be delivered; and
              (6) develop an interagency service delivery plan that 
          identifies--
                      (A) the priorities of the service providers and the 
                  community;
                      (B) the availability and use of adequate staff and 
                  physical resources;
                      (C) a plan to coordinate Federal, State and local 
                  regulations, eligibility requirements and application 
                  procedures;
                      (D) how coordinated services will be delivered, 
                  including a case management system; and
                      (E) a plan to become self-sufficient, without using 
                  funds authorized under this Act, not later than 2 years 
                  after implementation.
  
  SEC. 5. IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS.
  
      (a) Eligibility.--A local educational agency that desires to 
  receive a grant under this section shall have an interagency service 
  delivery plan that has been approved by the Secretary of Education.
      (b) Duration.--Grants under this section may not exceed a 2-year 
  period.
      (c) Applications.--To be eligible to receive a grant under this 
  section, a local educational agency shall submit an application which--
              (1) identifies barriers to learning experienced by students 
          in the local educational agency that stem from factors external 
          to the public school system, including poor health, evidence of 
          physical or sexual abuse, poor nutrition, inadequate housing, 
          lack of appropriate childcare and lack of appropriate preschool 
          and before and after school care;
              (2) identifies existing social service programs;
              (3) identifies the participants in the delivery of 
          coordinated services, including community and parent 
          involvement;
              (4) includes an interagency service delivery plan which 
          includes the priorities of the service providers and the 
          community;
              (5) includes an interagency agreement signed by key parties 
          within the collaborative, partnership schools and agencies that 
          detail what will be done, by whom and when;
              (6) makes assurances that Federal funds will be used for 
          not more than 50 percent of the costs of this project after the 
          first year, with a commitment of matching funds from other 
          agencies or private sources, including the redirection of 
          existing funds and the use of in-kind services which will fully 
          support the project after the second year;
              (7) identifies how the coordinated service program will be 
          staffed, including the case of a coordinator and including a 
          plan for interagency staff training and development;
              (8) identifies where the coordinated service program will 
          be located;
              (9) identifies how Federal, State, and local regulations, 
          eligibility requirements and application procedures have been 
          coordinated;
              (10) utilizes a case management system; and
              (11) sets sliding scale service fees, if feasible.
      (d) Use of Funds.--Grants awarded under this section may be used--
              (1) to locate and obtain commitments from funding sources 
          other than the Federal Government when this grant ends;
              (2) to improve interagency communications and information-
          sharing, including developing telecommunications networks, 
          software development, data base integration and management, and 
          other applications of technology that improve coordination of 
          service;
              (3) to support colocation of interagency service delivery 
          programs in schools or other sites close to schools, including 
          rental or lease payments, open and lock-up fees or maintenance 
          and security costs necessary for the delivery of services to 
          students;
              (4) for staff development, including in-service and cross-
          agency training, for the interagency service delivery team, 
          including school staff;
              (5) to research and tabulate figures which demonstrate the 
          success of a coordinated services program, including improved 
          outcome for children and families in terms of taxpayers dollars 
          saved; and
              (6) to support dissemination and replication of successful 
          programs to other areas within a local educational agency.
  
  SEC. 6. TARGET POPULATIONS.
  
      (a) Eligible Schools, Grades, and Areas.--An eligible local 
  educational agency may select a school or program area for coordinated 
  services if the project design is of adequate size, scope, and quality 
  to achieve projected outcomes.
      (b) Eligible Students.--Programs and services shall be made 
  available to all children and families in the area to be served and 
  shall, when appropriate, be paid on a sliding scale.
  
  SEC. 7. SPECIAL CONSIDERATION.
  
      In making awards under this Act, the Secretary shall give special 
  consideration to--
              (1) the geographic distribution of awards, including urban, 
          suburban, and rural districts;
              (2) districts with concentrated pockets of educationally 
          at-risk students;
              (3) local educational agencies with high proportions of 
          educationally at-risk students; and
              (4) areas with a large number of single parent or two-
          parent, working families.
  
  SEC. 8. AUTHORIZATION.
  
      There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out the provisions 
  of this Act for fiscal year 2009, $300,000,000 of which $200,000,000 
  shall be allocated for development grants and $100,000,000 shall be 
  allocated for implementation grants, and such sums as may be necessary 
  for each of the fiscal years 2010 through 2015.
target: Coordinate to Educate Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award: (1) grants of up to three years to local educational agencies (LEAs) to collaborate with health and social service agencies to develop school-linked coordinated service programs for children and families on or near school sites; and (2) grants of up to two years to LEAs to implement such programs pursuant to interagency service delivery plans that have been approved by the Secretary.
  
  Requires program services to be available to all children and families in the service area and, where appropriate, paid for on a sliding scale.
  
  Directs the Secretary, in awarding grants, to give special consideration to areas with high proportions of educationally at-risk students and areas that have a large number of single parent or two-parent, working families.
feat_title: To authorize grants to local educational agencies to develop and implement coordinated services programs.