Ideas to strengthen service-learning and youth engagement at the federal level:
(These asks would be made to Members of Congress (Representatives and Senators), leaders of federal departments and agencies, and members of the Administration, including the President, Vice President, and members of the Cabinet.)
Grow AmeriCorps’ membership to 250,000 by 2013
Expand Learn and Serve America to engage 4.5 million students by 2013
Create a federal Semester of Service program.
Send a U.S. Youth Delegate to the United Nations
Make a Summer of Service a rite of passage
Create a Global Service Fellowship Program
Double the Peace Corps to its 1966 high of 16,000 members by its 50th anniversary in 2011
Strengthen “Serve-Study” for college students.
Found the U.S. Public Service Academy
Renew and fund the Federal Youth Coordination Act.
Increase research on how and why service-learning is related to graduation rates, and also the role service-learning has in elementary and secondary completion.
Lead a national discussion among state and local policymakers on the importance and value that service-learning has on a student’s academic education.
