Escuelas de campo, here we come!!!!
It's time for all American students to go cut that proverbial sugarcane:
The Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, known as the GIVE Act, was passed yesterday by a 321-105 margin and now goes to the Senate.
Under section 6104 of the bill, entitled “Duties,” in subsection B6, the legislation states that a commission will be set up to investigate, “Whether a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people could be developed, and how such a requirement could be implemented in a manner that would strengthen the social fabric of the Nation and overcome civic challenges by bringing together people from diverse economic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds.”
Section 120 of the bill also discusses the “Youth Engagement Zone Program” and states that “service learning” will be “a mandatory part of the curriculum in all of the secondary schools served by the local educational agency.”
Read more at Atlas Shrugs.
their interpretation of section 120 is wrong. It reads:
‘(a) In General- From the amounts appropriated to carry out this part for a fiscal year, the Corporation may make grants and fixed-amount grants (in accordance with section 129(l)) with eligible entities for activities described in subsection (c).
‘(b) Definitions- For purposes of this part, the following definitions apply:
‘(1) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES- The term ‘eligible entity’ means a State education agency, a State Commission, a Territory, an Indian tribe, an institution of higher education, or a public or private nonprofit organization (including community-based organizations), a public or private elementary or secondary school, a local educational agency, or a consortia of such entities, where a consortia of two or more such entities may also include a for-profit organization.
‘(2) YOUTH ENGAGEMENT ZONE- The term ‘youth engagement zone’ means the area in which a youth engagement zone program is carried out.
‘(3) YOUTH ENGAGEMENT ZONE PROGRAM- The term ‘youth engagement zone program’ means a service learning program in which members of an eligible partnership described in paragraph (4) collaborate to provide coordinated school-based or community-based service learning opportunities, to address a specific community challenge, for an increasing percentage of out-of-school youth and secondary school students served by local educational agencies where--
‘(A) not less than 90 percent of the students participate in service-learning activities as part of the program; or
‘(B) service-learning is a mandatory part of the curriculum in all of the secondary schools served by the local educational agency.
‘(4) ELIGIBLE PARTNERSHIP-
‘(A) IN GENERAL- The term ‘eligible partnership’ means--
‘(i) one or more community-based agencies that have demonstrated records of success in carrying out service-learning programs with disadvantaged students, and that meet such criteria as the Chief Executive Officer may establish; in combination with;
‘(ii) (I) one or more local educational agencies for which--
‘(aa) a high number or percentage of the students served by the agency, as determined by the Corporation, are disadvantaged students; and
‘(bb) the graduation rate for the secondary school students served by the agency is less than 70 percent; or
‘(II) a State Commission; or
‘(III) a State educational agency.
‘(B) ADDITIONAL ENTITIES- An eligible partnership may also include--
‘(i) a local government agency that is not described in subparagraph (A);
‘(ii) the office of the chief executive officer of a unit of general local government; or
‘(iii) an institution of higher education.
So what this says if the school has some type of service requirement as part of a curriculum, (such as volunteering at hospitals, etc.) then it is eligible for these grants. It is not imposing such a requirement on the schools.
Mike, they are planting the seeds. And if voluntary service is required doesn't it stop being voluntary? Ugh. St. Kitts here I come.
No one is addressing the burning question this raises. What color shirts will the Obama Youth wear? My vote is for green.