Explanation
Background: This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with the Columbus Board of Education in support of the Community Campus School pilot program at Northland High School.
The Columbus Board of Education’s mission is to cultivate a supportive, inclusive, and transformative learning community where every student thrives academically and personally. The Board achieves this by partnering with families, staff, and community members to create meaningful, sustainable systems that strengthen engagement, wellbeing, and success. The Board also seeks to leverage diverse strengths to build a connected Community Campus where all stakeholders share responsibility and pride in achievement.
Community Schools are public schools that provide services and support which fit each neighborhood’s needs, created and run by the people who know the schools’ students best-families, educators, community organizations, local governments, and the students themselves. Outcomes associated with the Northland Community School Pilot Program include:
· A Northland community needs and asset assessment;
· A commitment from the Columbus City Schools District to invest in the project by funding at least a partial Community Schools Coordinator and funding non-personnel expenses; and
· A data-aligned progress report each academic semester.
Community campus school models have been shown to support student attendance, staff retention, graduation rates, lowered discipline rates, and more.
Since the organization lacks the funding necessary to operate the program on a reimbursement basis, funds will be advanced to the Columbus Board of Education in order to initiate the program.
Fiscal Impact: Funding ($90,000.00) is available within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Emergency Designation: The Community Campus School pilot program is intended to launch at Northland this fall. To support the Board’s efforts and provide financial resources as soon as possibl...
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