{"data":{"id":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-49-6-2403","jurisdiction":"us-tn","citation":"Tenn. Code Ann. § 49-6-2403","heading":"Part definitions","body":"As used in this part: (1) \"Community consortium\" means a partnership established between an LEA and one (1) or more community partners for purposes of establishing, operating, and sustaining a community school; (2) \"Community partner\" means a provider of one (1) or more community services or a community organization or for-profit or nonprofit entity with a desire to improve conditions in the community; (3) \"Community school\" means a public and private partnership to coordinate educational, developmental, family, health, and before-school and after-school-care programs during school and nonschool hours for students, families, and local communities at a public school with the objectives of improving academic achievement, reducing absenteeism, building stronger relationships between schools, students, parents, and communities, and improving the skills, capacity, and well-being of the surrounding community residents; and (4) \"Community services\" include: (A) Primary medical and dental care that is available to students and community residents; (B) Mental health prevention and treatment services that are available to students and community residents; (C) Academic-enrichment activities designed to promote a student's cognitive development and provide opportunities to practice and apply academic skills; (D) Programs designed to increase school attendance, including reducing early chronic absenteeism rates; (E) Youth development programs designed to promote young people's social, emotional, physical, and moral development, including arts, sports, physical fitness, youth leadership, community service, and service-learning opportunities; (F) Early childhood education, including the voluntary pre-K, Head Start and Early Head Start programs; (G) Programs designed to: (i) Facilitate parental involvement in, and engagement with, their children's education, including parental activities that involve supporting, monitoring, and advocating for their children's education; (ii) Promote parental leadership in the life of the school; and (iii) Build parenting skills; (H) School-age child-care services, including before-school and after-school services and full-day programming that operates during school holidays, summers, vacations, and weekends; (I) Programs that provide assistance to students who have been truant, suspended, or expelled and that offer multiple pathways to high school graduation or obtainment of a high school equivalency credential approved by the state board of education; (J) Youth and adult job-training services and career-counseling services; (K) Nutrition-education services; (L) Adult education, including instruction in English as a second language, adult literacy, computer literacy, financial literacy, and hard-skills training; and (M) Programs that provide remedial education and enrichment activities. Amended by 2023 Tenn. Acts, ch. 114, s 25, eff. 7/1/2023. Added by 2014 Tenn. Acts, ch. 968,s 4, eff. 5/19/2014.\nAs used in this part:\n(1) \"Community consortium\" means a partnership established between an LEA and one (1) or more community partners for purposes of establishing, operating, and sustaining a community school;\n(2) \"Community partner\" means a provider of one (1) or more community services or a community organization or for-profit or nonprofit entity with a desire to improve conditions in the community;\n(3) \"Community school\" means a public and private partnership to coordinate educational, developmental, family, health, and before-school and after-school-care programs during school and nonschool hours for students, families, and local communities at a public school with the objectives of improving academic achievement, reducing absenteeism, building stronger relationships between schools, students, parents, and communities, and improving the skills, capacity, and well-being of the surrounding community residents; and\nbefore-school and after-school-care programs during school and nonschool hours for students, families, and local communities at a public school with the objectives of improving academic achievement, reducing absenteeism, building stronger relationships between schools, students, parents, and communities, and improving the skills, capacity, and well-being of the surrounding community residents; and\n(4) \"Community services\" include: (A) Primary medical and dental care that is available to students and community residents; (B) Mental health prevention and treatment services that are available to students and community residents; (C) Academic-enrichment activities designed to promote a student's cognitive development and provide opportunities to practice and apply academic skills; (D) Programs designed to increase school attendance, including reducing early chronic absenteeism rates; (E) Youth development programs designed to promote young people's social, emotional, physical, and moral development, including arts, sports, physical fitness, youth leadership, community service, and service-learning opportunities; (F) Early childhood education, including the voluntary pre-K, Head Start and Early Head Start programs; (G) Programs designed to: (i) Facilitate parental involvement in, and engagement with, their children's education, including parental activities that involve supporting, monitoring, and advocating for their children's education; (ii) Promote parental leadership in the life of the school; and (iii) Build parenting skills; (H) School-age child-care services, including before-school and after-school services and full-day programming that operates during school holidays, summers, vacations, and weekends; (I) Programs that provide assistance to students who have been truant, suspended, or expelled and that offer multiple pathways to high school graduation or obtainment of a high school equivalency credential approved by the state board of education; (J) Youth and adult job-training services and career-counseling services; (K) Nutrition-education services; (L) Adult education, including instruction in English as a second language, adult literacy, computer literacy, financial literacy, and hard-skills training; and (M) Programs that provide remedial education and enrichment activities.\n(A) Primary medical and dental care that is available to students and community residents;\n(B) Mental health prevention and treatment services that are available to students and community residents;\n(C) Academic-enrichment activities designed to promote a student's cognitive development and provide opportunities to practice and apply academic skills;\n(D) Programs designed to increase school attendance, including reducing early chronic absenteeism rates;\n(E) Youth development programs designed to promote young people's social, emotional, physical, and moral development, including arts, sports, physical fitness, youth leadership, community service, and service-learning opportunities;\n(F) Early childhood education, including the voluntary pre-K, Head Start and Early Head Start programs;\n(G) Programs designed to: (i) Facilitate parental involvement in, and engagement with, their children's education, including parental activities that involve supporting, monitoring, and advocating for their children's education; (ii) Promote parental leadership in the life of the school; and (iii) Build parenting skills;\nion, including the voluntary pre-K, Head Start and Early Head Start programs;\n(G) Programs designed to: (i) Facilitate parental involvement in, and engagement with, their children's education, including parental activities that involve supporting, monitoring, and advocating for their children's education; (ii) Promote parental leadership in the life of the school; and (iii) Build parenting skills;\n(i) Facilitate parental involvement in, and engagement with, their children's education, including parental activities that involve supporting, monitoring, and advocating for their children's education;\n(ii) Promote parental leadership in the life of the school; and\n(iii) Build parenting skills;\n(H) School-age child-care services, including before-school and after-school services and full-day programming that operates during school holidays, summers, vacations, and weekends;\n(I) Programs that provide assistance to students who have been truant, suspended, or expelled and that offer multiple pathways to high school graduation or obtainment of a high school equivalency credential approved by the state board of education;\n(J) Youth and adult job-training services and career-counseling services;\n(K) Nutrition-education services;\n(L) Adult education, including instruction in English as a second language, adult literacy, computer literacy, financial literacy, and hard-skills training; and\n(M) Programs that provide remedial education and enrichment activities.","path":["TN Code","Title 49","Chapter 6"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_tn_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:26Z","sha256":"5a79f517ea509ff77c9dafc545298648349a4941b96fb2fd2b9b1eacec6540b7","source_id":"us-tn","stale":false,"prev":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-49-6-2402","next":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-49-6-2404"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. 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