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Committee explores community schools model and targeted grants for high‑need neighborhoods
Summary
Members discussed the Maryland community‑schools designation, the local management board needs assessment, and the Enough Act capacity funding as a way to support wraparound services in specific census blocks feeding Patuxent campus schools.
Committee members discussed community schools as a wraparound model for neighborhoods with concentrated poverty and multiple needs. A county official summarized a local management board needs assessment that prioritized mental health, affordable housing, transportation and early‑childhood supports and suggested leveraging memoranda of understanding to coordinate services.
Speakers noted that Calvert County has relatively low child poverty overall but identified specific neighborhoods (Yardley Hills and parts of the Patuxent feeder area) where capacity funding could be targeted and where eligibility for community schools could change in coming years. The committee asked staff to identify existing MOUs and opportunities to braid funding across partners.
