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Community-Higher Education-School Partnership
(CHESP) Program
The collaborative partnership between the Texas Education Agency (TEA), Region 14 Education Service Center (ESC), Region 6 ESC, and the Texas Center for Service-Learning (TxCSL--the office of statewide initiatives for Region 14 ESC) involves seven subgrants to local education agencies (LEAs) that serve as fiscal agents for CHES partnerships. Two regional partnerships work with TxCSL to oversee subgrants through a training and coaching model designed to meet the needs of rural and underserved communities. The goals and associated performance measurements include: (1) improving student academic engagement or performance; (2) improving civic knowledge, skills, attitudes, and/or behaviors among participating youth; (3) strenghthening communities through mutually beneficial service-learning partnerships; (4) involving participating students in at least 20 hours of service-learning activities per year; (5) developing replicable models of service-learning programs that are shared with other sites. The program will result in seven replicable partnership models in the categories of social services, local history, teen leadership, and migrant education.
Subgrantee activities include local and oral history projects, community development and health initiatives, a Teen and Community Center and a Teen Court manual, and an outdoor migrant education program. Statewide program activities include an annual CHESP conference; a CHESP listserv and quarterly conference calls; biannual teleconferences over the Texas Education Television Network (TETN); on-site technical assistance visits and training in the S.T.A.R.S. quality standards; development of local CHESP leadership teams to spearhead subgrantee implementation and replication; monthly conference calls and biannual planning meetings in Austin with participating ESC liaisons; local and statewide recognition of participants; and statewide partnerships in support of service-learning.
Community-Higher Education-School Partnership (CHESP) Subgrantees:
- (Region 6) Bryan ISD, Buffalo ISD, Centerville ISD, Lovelady ISD
- (Region 14) Colorado City ISD, Wylie ISD
- (Region 20) South San Antonio ISD
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2006-2007 Forms
- 2006-2007 CHESP Progress Report Form (Word)
- 2006-2007 CHESP Expenditure Report (Excel)
- 2006-2007 CHESP Carryover Forms (Word)
- 2006-2007 CHESP Grant Guidelines (Summary) (Word)
Program Coordinators Manual for CHESP SCP Downloadable files in Word
Templates (Word)
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