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Children—s Home Society outlines community partnership-school model and local funding needs
Summary
Children—s Home Society told the Duval County School Board it manages 31 community partnership schools statewide and described the model—s four pillars, certification process and recurring state funding; site-level budgets and local matches for Ed White and Long Branch were detailed.
Becky Couch of the Children—s Home Society told the Duval County School Board on Oct. 8 that the community partnership school model brings a school, a local university, a health-care partner and a nonprofit together for a long-term, campus-based strategy to remove nonacademic barriers to learning. "A community school is both a physical place as well as a partnership in a school," Couch said.
Couch outlined four pillars that drive the modelcollaborative leadership, extended learning, wellness supports and daily community engagementand said the program relies on multi-year commitments from core partners. She said CHS…
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