276.2 - PURPOSE.
276.2 PURPOSE.
It is the purpose of this chapter to provide educational,
recreational, cultural, and other community services and programs
through the establishment of the concept of community education with
the community school serving as the center for such activity. In
co-operation with other community agencies and groups, it is the
purpose of the community education Act to mobilize community
resources to solve identified community concerns and to promote a
more efficient and expanded use of existing school buildings and
equipment, to provide leadership in working with other entities, to
mobilize the human and financial resources of a community, and to
provide a wide range of opportunities for all socioeconomic, ethnic,
and age groups. A related purpose of this chapter is to develop a
sense of community in which the citizenry co-operates with the school
and community agencies and groups to resolve their school and
community concerns and to recognize that the schools belong to the
people, and that as the entity located in every neighborhood, the
schools are available for use by the community day and night,
year-round or any time when the programming will not interfere with
the elementary and secondary program. Section History: Early Form
[C79, 81, § 276.2]
Referred to in § 276.1, 276.3