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The bill directs significant federal grants and staff funding to expand full‑service community schools and wraparound supports for high‑need students — improving access to health, social, and learning services — while increasing federal spending, adding administrative and reporting burdens, and raising student‑privacy and equity concerns for smaller or underresourced districts.
Low-income students and families in high-need neighborhoods (including rural and Tribal communities) gain coordinated, school-based health, mental-health, nutrition, tutoring, transportation, and other wraparound supports that are designed to improve attendance and whole-child outcomes.
Schools receive sustained federal grant funding for dedicated staff (community school coordinators, initiative directors) and expanded learning time to implement full‑service community school models and better coordinate services.
The bill prioritizes funding and clearer authority for high-need areas — including high-poverty Promise Neighborhoods, rural districts, and Tribal/Bureau-funded schools — improving equity and enabling Tribal education authorities to compete for grants and receive student information to serve Native students.
The bill authorizes several hundred million to over a billion dollars annually across FY2027–FY2031, creating increased federal outlays that could raise budget pressures or crowd out other priorities for taxpayers.
Expanded data-sharing (including provisions allowing schools to share records with community providers without prior parental consent) reduces parental control over some student records and raises substantial student privacy risks if protections and oversight are inconsistent.
New grant, reporting, evaluation, and results‑framework requirements impose administrative and compliance burdens on schools, LEAs, and applicants that can divert staff time and resources away from instruction unless grants fully cover these costs.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Authorizes a large competitive grant program to expand full‑service community schools and broadens FERPA exceptions to allow more school‑to‑community data sharing for services.
Official title: To improve the full-service community school program, and for other purposes.
Introduced May 12, 2026 by Susie Lee · Last progress May 12, 2026
Creates and expands a federal Full‑Service Community Schools program that provides planning, implementation, expansion, and state competitive grants to support community schools that coordinate academics, health, family, and community services. It authorizes new multi-year funding from FY2027–FY2031 that phases up to $1 billion in FY2031 and sets detailed grant types, award minimums/maximums, prioritization rules, and set‑asides for state grants and technical assistance. Also revises federal student privacy (FERPA) exceptions to allow more nonconsensual sharing of education records with specified community partners, Tribal entities, local governments, and service providers for operational, health/safety, attendance, and service‑delivery purposes. The bill reorganizes related Promise Neighborhoods and cross‑references to direct existing funds to the expanded community schools program.