42 U.S.C. § 12521 — Purpose
submitted 17 years ago by Pub. L. 101-610 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 58 words · no verdicts yet
This part of the law exists to promote service-learning — combining classroom learning with community service. It aims to support high-quality projects that meet real community needs while building students' academic and civic skills, and to help schools build the capacity to run these programs, including training teachers.
The purpose of this part is to promote service-learning* as a strategy to—
support high-quality service-learning projects that engage students in meeting community needs with demonstrable results, while enhancing students’ academic and civic learning; and
support efforts to build institutional capacity, including the training of educators, and to strengthen the service infrastructure to expand service opportunities.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 101–610, title I, § 111, as added Pub. L. 111–13, title I, § 1201, Apr. 21, 2009, 123 Stat. 1467.)
- 2009Enacted · Pub. L. 101-610 · 123 Stat. 1467
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 101-610 on 2009-04-21.
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