42 U.S.C. § 12523: Assistance to States, territories, and Indian tribes

providing training and professional development for teachers, supervisors, personnel from community-based entities (particularly with regard to the recruitment, utilization, and management of participants), and trainers, to be conducted by qualified individuals or organizations that have experience with service-learning; developing service-learning curricula, consistent with State or local academic content standards, to be integrated into academic programs, including curricula for an age-appropriate learning component that provides participants an opportunity to analyze and apply their service experiences; forming local partnerships described in paragraph (2) or (4)(D) to develop school-based service-learning programs in accordance with this part; devising appropriate methods for research on and evaluation of the educational value of service-learning and the effect of service-learning activities on communities; establishing effective outreach and dissemination of information to ensure the broadest possible involvement of community-based entities with demonstrated effectiveness in working with school-age youth in their communities; and establishing effective outreach and dissemination of information to ensure the broadest possible participation of schools throughout the State, throughout the territory, or serving the Indian tribe involved with particular attention to schools implementing comprehensive support and improvement activities or targeted support and improvement activities under section 6311(d) of title 20 ; local educational agencies; and has a demonstrated expertise in the provision of services to meet unmet human, education, environmental, or public safety needs; will make projects available for participants, who shall be students; and was in existence at least 1 year before the date on which the organization submitted an application under section 12525 of this title ; and may include a private for-profit business, private elementary school or secondary school, or Indian tribe (except that an Indian tribe distributing funds to a project under this paragraph is not eligible to be part of the partnership operating that project); the salaries and benefits of service-learning coordinators; or the recruitment, training and professional development, supervision, and placement of service-learning coordinators who may be participants in a program under division C or receive a national service educational award under division D, who may be participants in a project under section 5001 of this title , or who may participate in a Youthbuild program under section 3226 of title 29 , local educational agencies; Indian tribes (except that an Indian tribe distributing funds under this paragraph is not eligible to be a recipient of those funds); public or private nonprofit organizations; or partnerships or combinations of local educational agencies, and entities described in subparagraph (B) or (C); and the principles of the Constitution, the heroes of United States history (including military heroes), and the meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance; how the Nation’s government functions; and the importance of service in the Nation’s character. providing technical assistance and information to, and facilitating the training of, teachers and assisting in the planning, development, execution, and evaluation of service-learning in their classrooms; assisting local partnerships described in subsection (a)(2) in the planning, development, and execution of service-learning projects, including summer of service programs; assisting schools and local educational agencies in developing school policies and practices that support the integration of service-learning into the curriculum; and carrying out such other duties as the local partnership or entity, respectively, may determine to be appropriate. An entity that receives financial assistance under this part from a State, territory, or Indian tribe may, in carrying out the activities described in subsection (a), use such assistance to pay for the Federal share of reasonable costs related to the supervision of participants, program administration, transportation, insurance, and evaluations and for other reasonable expenses related to the activities. A State educational agency described in section 12522(2)(A) of this title may designate a statewide entity (which may be a community-based entity) with demonstrated experience in supporting or implementing service-learning programs, to receive the State educational agency’s allotment under this part, and carry out the functions of the agency under this part. identification and dissemination of research findings on service-learning and scientifically valid research based practices for service-learning; and improve the quality of service-learning instruction and delivery for teachers both preservice and in-service, personnel from community-based entities and youth workers; and create and sustain effective partnerships for service-learning programs between local educational agencies, community-based entities, businesses, and other stakeholders.