What Are Community Schools?
The community schools strategy transforms a school into a place where educators, local community members, families, and students work together to strengthen conditions for student learning and healthy development. As partners, they organize in- and out-of-school resources, supports, and opportunities so that young people thrive.
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What is BUCCS?
Binghamton University Center for Community Schools (BUCCS) advances research, evaluation, education, technical assistance and implementation of the University Assisted Community Schools (UACS) locally, nationally and globally. UACS is a community schools model in which institutions of higher education (IHEs) serve as primary partners. These partnerships enhance community well-being while advancing research, teaching and learning from pre-kindergarten to higher education (PK-20+), and where the IHE's curriculum focuses on helping to solve local community-identified problems. Over the last decade, community schools and UACS, in particular, have grown exponentially, and Binghamton University has established itself as a national leader in this field.
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