Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 107 Part 1.djvu/852

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// 107 STAT. 826 PUBLIC LAW 103-82—SEPT. 21, 1993 "(D) devising appropriate methods for research and evaluation of the educational value of service-learning and the effect of service-learning activities on communities; and "(E) establishing effective outreach and dissemination of information to ensure the broadest possible involvement of community-based agencies with demonstrated effectiveness in working with school-age youth in their communities; "(2) implementing, operating, or expanding school-based service-learning programs, which may include paying for the cost of the recruitment, training, supervision, placement, salaries, and benefits of service-learning coordinators, through State distribution of Federal funds made available under this subpart to projects operated by local partnerships among— "(A) local educational agencies; and "(B) one or more community partners that— "(i) shall include a public or private nonprofit organization that— "(I) has a demonstrated expertise in the provision of services to meet unmet human, educational, environmental, or public safety needs; "(II) was in existence at least 1 year before the date on which the organization submitted an application under section 114; and "(III) will make projects available for participants, who shall be students; and "(ii) may include a private for-profit business or private elementary or secondary school; "(3) planning of school-based service-learning programs, through State distribution of Federal funds made available under this subpart to local educational agencies, which planning may include paying for the cost of— "(A) the salaries and benefits of service-learning coordinators; or "(B) the recruitment, training, supervision, and placement of service-learning coordinators who are participants in a program under subtitle C or receive a national service educational award under subtitle D, who will identify the community partners described in paragraph (2)(B) and assist in the design and implementation of a program described in paragraph (2); and "(4) implementing, operating, or expanding school-based service-learning programs involving adult volunteers to utilize service-learning to improve the education of students, through State distribution of Federal funds made available under tins part to local partnerships among— "(A) local educational agencies; and "(B) one or more— "(i) public or private nonprofit organizations; "(ii) other educational agencies; or "(iii) private for-profit businesses, that coordinate and operate projects for participants, who shall be students. "(b) DUTIES OF SERVICE-LEARNING COORDINATOR. —A servicelearning coordinator referred to in paragraph (2) or (3) of subsection (a) shall provide services to a local educational agency by—