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Panelists urge stable funding, technical assistance and shared governance to sustain California community schools
Summary
County offices, district leaders and nonprofit partners told Assembly committees that sustained funding for coordinators, a vertically aligned technical‑assistance system (STAC/RTAC/COE), flexible alignment of funding streams and clearer reporting/eligibility rules are critical to embedding community schools statewide.
As California considers how to sustain and scale its community schools initiative, witnesses at a joint Assembly hearing pressed the Legislature to pair continued grant dollars with long‑term technical assistance, clearer guidance and protections that embed shared governance at the school level.
"We think it's really important to provide ongoing funding for this vertically aligned TA's transformational assistance system," Navdeep Pirowal of the Sacramento County Office of Education said, describing the State Transformational Assistance Center (STAC), eight regional technical assistance centers and county offices of education that…
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