HI HCR38

Requests the Board of Education to adopt a policy relating to community schools to guide expansion of such programs across Hawaii.

Identifies four key pillars of community schools approach: integrated student supports, expanded learning time and opportunities, active family engagement, and collaborative leadership.

Notes community schools address barriers to learning including housing instability, inadequate healthcare, hunger, trauma, and violence exposure.

Highlights that research shows community-school interventions improve student attendance, academic achievement, and graduation rates.

Urges the Department of Education to use the adopted policy to expand community schools programs to additional campuses throughout the State.