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Healthcare Services Continue Growing for Polk’s First Community Partnership School

Since opening last year, the community health center on the campus of Crystal Lake Elementary has served more than 1,300...
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Center Hosts Site Visit for Welsh Educators

The UCF Center for Community Schools recently hosted a group of Welsh educators interested in learning about community schools in...
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Gulfside Elementary Offers Health Care, Clothes, Dinners — and Hope for Other Pasco Schools

Margot Zukowski worked her way through the classroom-sized clothes closet and food pantry, offering color coordination tips to her fifth-grade...
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New Staff to Expand Center’s Capabilities

Students engage with multiple disciplines while learning math and improving the lives of others...
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Orange Park High Will Adopt the Innovative Community Partnership Schools Model

Orange Park High will adopt the innovative Community Partnership Schools model this year with partnerships among Children’s Home Society of...
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BCPS Launches First Community Partnership School at Gulfstream Academy and Gulfstream Early Learning Center

Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) is proud to announce an $80,000 grant by the Center for Community Schools at the...
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Duke–NCCU Group Visits Orlando to Learn About Community Partnership Schools

“History in the making,” wrote Duke University student Songia Wynn as she reflected on her recent visit to two Community...

The First ‘Community School’ Is Coming to Manatee County. Here’s What That Means

With laptops, worksheets and glue sticks in hand, the students at Manatee Elementary School worked toward a well-deserved lunch of...
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10 New Community Partnership Schools Soon to Launch in Florida

Ten schools located in seven school districts across the state will receive state grant funds to become a Community Partnership...

Dodgertown Elementary Awarded $80,000 Grant That Aims to Bolster Community Partnership

The school is one of 10 in Florida slated to receive an $80,000 grant that will offer support in areas...
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Sabal Palm Becomes a Community Partnership School

In June 2015, then-Tallahassee City Commissioner Gil Ziffer visited the first community partnership school in Florida: Evans High in Orlando's...
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Big Boost for Community Partnership Schools and the Impact

Gov. Ron DeSantis recently endorsed the Community Partnership Schools model by signing into law a bill that allocates $7.1 million...
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States Lead the Way on Community School Innovation

Policymakers and leaders at multiple levels have been paying increased attention to community schools—schools that engage families and community organizations...
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As First Day Nears, Hillsborough Highlights Mort Elementary’s New Role As a ‘Community School’

Kollin Spain, 14, wants to be a U.S. Navy Seal. Paola Rioja, 17, is on her way to becoming a...
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Wilkinson Food Bank Does More Than Fill Bellies

Alicha Fox once stood at the beginning of the line at the Kitchen Shelves Food Bank at Wilkinson Junior High...

On the Air

Gradebook Podcast (November 7, 2019)
09:12 "... public school programs like the Community Partnership Schools ... do tremendously well ..."
— Rep. Chris Latvala, chairman of the Florida House PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee (2019 Session)

Community Partnership Schools Get Funding to Expand (August 13, 2019)

Peace and Justice Report: Community Partnership Schools (July 31, 2019)

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