123STA T . 1 48 1 PUBLIC LA W 111 – 13 — AP R .21 , 2 0 0 9‘ ‘ (8)establi s hor i mp leme n ts u mmer o f ser v i c e pro g rams (giving priorit y to programs that enroll youth w ho will be enrolle d in any of grades 6 through 9 at the end of the summer concerned) during the summer months (including recruiting , training, and placing service - learning coordinators) — ‘‘( A ) for youth who will be enrolled in any of grades 6 through 12 at the end of the summer concerned
and ‘‘( B ) for community-based service-learning pro j ects— ‘‘(i) that shall— ‘‘( I ) meet unmet human, educational, environ- mental (including energy conservation and stewardship), and emergency and disaster preparedness and other public safety needs; and ‘‘(II) be intensive, structured, supervised, and designed to produce identifiable improvements to the community; ‘‘(ii) that may include the e x tension of academic year service-learning programs into the summer months; and ‘‘(iii) under which a student who completes 1 0 0 hours of service as described in section 1 4 6(b)(2), shall be eligible for a summer of service educational award of $5 00or$ 7 50 as described in sections 146(a)(2)( C ) and 147(d); ‘‘(9) establish or implement youth engagement z one pro- grams in youth engagement zones, for students in secondary schools served by local educational agencies for which a majority of such students do not participate in service-learning activities that are— ‘‘(A) carried out by eligible partnerships; and ‘‘(B) designed to— ‘‘(i) involve all students in secondary schools served by the local educational agency in service-learning to address a specific community challenge; ‘‘(ii) improve student engagement, including stu- dent attendance and student behavior, and student achievement, graduation rates, and college-going rates at secondary schools; and ‘‘(iii) involve an increasing percentage of students in secondary school and out-of-school youth in the community in school-based or community-based service-learning activities each year, with the goal of involving all students in secondary schools served by the local educational agency and involving an increasing percentage of the out-of-school youth in service-learning activities; and ‘‘(10) conduct semester of service programs that— ‘‘(A) provide opportunities for secondary school stu- dents to participate in a semester of coordinated school- based or community-based service-learning opportunities for a minimum of 70 hours (of which at least a third will be spent participating in field-based activities) over a semester, to address specific community challenges; ‘‘(B) engage as participants high percentages or num- bers of economically disadvantaged students; ‘‘(C) allow participants to receive academic credit, for the time spent in the classroom and in the field for the
