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S.3487

Serve America Act (Introduced in Senate)

  • (a) Findings- Congress finds the following:
    • (1) Engaging in service-learning and community service activities at a young age makes individuals more likely to continue to volunteer and engage in service throughout their lives.
    • (2) High-quality service-learning programs keep students engaged in school and increase the likelihood that they will graduate.
    • (3) Since its creation, the Learn and Serve America program has allowed over 15,000,000 students to take part in service-learning activities to improve their communities and schools.
    • (4) Most schools do not offer service-learning activities, but many students, particularly students at risk of dropping out, express an interest in service-learning.
  • (b) Purposes- The purposes of this section are–
    • (1) to provide increased high-quality service-learning opportunities for in-school and out-of-school youth in high-need, low-income communities as a strategy to retain and re-engage youth likely to drop out and youth who have dropped out;
    • (2) to encourage more individuals to engage in lifetimes of service by teaching young people the value of service early in their lives; and
    • (3) to establish youth engagement zones with the goal of involving all secondary school students served by a local educational agency in service-learning to solve a specific community challenge, through a program that can serve as a model for other communities.

I’ve not read it yet but if you happen to get a chance and find anything of quality please point it out in the comments.

Here are the sponsors:
Sen Clinton, Hillary Rodham [NY] - 9/12/2008
Sen Cochran, Thad [MS] - 9/12/2008
Sen Dodd, Christopher J. [CT] - 9/12/2008
Sen Hatch, Orrin G. [UT] - 9/12/2008
Sen McCain, John [AZ] - 9/12/2008
Sen Obama, Barack [IL] - 9/12/2008

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