Initial Challenges Implementing the Full-Service Community Schools Approach and How FY 2023 Grantees Addressed Them

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Examines the challenges experienced by Full-Service Community Schools program grantees and partner schools when implementing the grants in their first year. Provides a snapshot of how rural and high-poverty schools engage families, combine funding streams, and create data systems while sustaining the structure of a community school that addresses academic, physical, and mental health needs of students.

Eryn Larang, Ijun Lai, Erica Lee, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Megan Davis

03/2026

Institute of Education Sciences

Schools · Sustainability of programs