Learn and Serve America (LSA) was a
United States government
The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, a city within a feder ...
program under the authority of the
Corporation For National and Community Service
AmeriCorps (officially the Corporation for National and Community Service or CNCS) is an independent agency of the United States government that engages more than five million Americans in service through a variety of stipended volunteer work prog ...
. Its mission was to provide opportunities for students nationwide to participate in
service learning
Service-learning is an educational approach that combines learning objectives with community service in order to provide a pragmatic, progressive learning experience while meeting societal needs.
Service-learning involves students in service proje ...
projects, and to gain valuable experience while helping communities. It sponsored the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.
Programs
Learn and Serve America's budget was primarily distributed to
K–12
K–12, from kindergarten to 12th grade, is an American English expression that indicates the range of years of publicly supported primary and secondary education found in the United States, which is similar to publicly supported school grades ...
and
higher education institutions, as well as
community organization Community organization or Community Based Organization refers to organization aimed at making desired improvements to a community's social health, well-being, and overall functioning. Community organization occurs in geographically, psychosocially, ...
s, upon request, in the form of
grants
Grant or Grants may refer to:
Places
*Grant County (disambiguation)
Australia
* Grant, Queensland, a locality in the Barcaldine Region, Queensland, Australia
United Kingdom
*Castle Grant
United States
* Grant, Alabama
* Grant, Inyo County, ...
. Of the money earmarked for grants, approximately half was distributed on a population-based formula to state education agencies, while another quarter was granted on a competitive basis to community based organizations and Indian Tribes; 25% was reserved for competitive grants to higher education institutions or consortia. Learn and Serve America also oversaw the Presidential Freedom Scholarships, the Presidential Volunteer Service Awards, and the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. Learn and Serve America provided leadership and support to the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse.
History
Learn and Serve America grew from Serve America, a program created under the National and Community Service Act of 1990. When the Corporation for National and Community Service was created in 1993, Serve America was reformed as Learn and Serve America. http://www.nationalservice.gov/pdf/factsheet_lsa.pdf Learn and Serve America was reauthorized in the 2009 Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act. In 2011 the United States House Appropriations Committee eliminated the entire budget for the Learn and Serve America program.
See also
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Service-learning
Service-learning is an educational approach that combines learning objectives with community service in order to provide a pragmatic, progressive learning experience while meeting societal needs.
Service-learning involves students in service proje ...
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National service
National service is the system of voluntary government service, usually military service. Conscription is mandatory national service. The term ''national service'' comes from the United Kingdom's National Service (Armed Forces) Act 1939.
The l ...
External links
Learn and Serve America's home pageLearn and Serve home page
Agencies of the United States government
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