HB4

HB4 **Sponsors -** Taylor Miotke, SC, Asia Lerner, IL, Livi Eitzman, CA

**Bill Title:** **C.S.E.- __C__ommunity __S__ervice in __E__ducation﻿**

**Issue Catagory: Education**

**Pourpose-** To encourage volunteer work and good citezenship within the student body. A half credit of community service will be required in student's Junior and Senior classe to graduate. This will give them more experience for their futures and will show them the effect helping others has on a communtiy. Also, it will help to boost the state of the community's enviornment and encourage everyone to get active about keeping the community clean and helping others.

**Eligability-** This bill applies to students in schools throughout the country and to their communities. The citizens of these towns will have acces to a cleaner, more healthy enviornment and the students will gain life experiance and have a chance to help out and volunteer in community.

**Terms and Benifits-** Many students around the country are graduating with little to no experiance in volunteering and or community service. Also, the number of students who continue doing these projects and services after they graduate and throughout collage is small. Most communities are polluted with trash and are not well taken care of. Not to mention that there are many nursing homes and retirment centers looking for help and entertainment for their residents. Most of these problems are over looked and put in last place on the town's to do list, mainly because of finacial distractions and other favorites of the people. If the students and citizens payed the smaller, but still important needs, more attention often, than less work would have to be put into it (if kept up with). The people of these wanting falicities are spending many hours alone and without help, but if more students were introduced to community service, these wants and even needs could be more easily attended to. If we taught all students and made a communtiy service class required in high school, they could have more of a chance to become better, more effective, and experianced students to help todays cercimstances and help tomorrows future!


 * We will need to persuade and have put into all main high schools a required community service class. It is prefered that all students have to take one credit of this class to graduate. The class will include a before project planning period, where the students are taking time to pick out different projects interesting to them and write papers on any past experiences they've had. This stage will also include the students deciding on what they are going to do in their service projects and getting them excited to help. Then, the students will be put into action by have their class group take a bus to the location of their service. Their grade will depend upon whether or not they participate activlly and if they take their time to preform the job well. The school and community will also have to work together to decide where help is needed and where it can be provided and made avalible to help.


 * After the class is set in place, two to three teachers will need to be hired. They will have to go through testings over all subjects, but will have a main focus on communtiy service and how well they can handle students and many, excesive trips. Also, an estimate of about seven assistants will be needed to fill possitions and help transport and watch over students on service trips. Finding teachers with experiance and professions in the catagories of volunteery services and educating but having fun with students is important becasue many seem to judge classes on their teachers. If students and teachers become more connected, that could be a very big deciding factor in whether they take the knowledge they gain on with them in later life experiences or not. Also, residents of the town will have the first oppertunities for the place of the job, then if needed, others will be able to apply. This will give the people of the community a better chance at a job and also a way to show skills and past experiences.


 * When the class is set and stone, and the teachers have been tested and hired, the purchasing of any needed supplies and transportaion will be fufilled. If the class is to be successful with students, we will need the right learning equipment and necessities. With the right materials, the students will have a better time learning and will be more prepared to take on their desired services, knowing what to do before going into it. Also, supplies for specific class will not only be a cost but the price of desks, chairs, and markers that would be extra needs added to the list. One of the last cost of the project would be transportation, gasoline, and bus drivers. They will be needed to take trips to places where service is required.

With different prices of services, the cost will be a little different for all communities. The deciding factor will be size of town itself and population. This could effect the nubers of teachers and assistances needed and also the number of services avalibal to students. The going rate for this project right now is:
 * Fiscial Impact- **

Equipment: • School Supplies- $13,734,000 <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 5.28pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">• Tools for service acts- $27,500,000 <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Teachers: <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 5.28pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">• 3 Teachers per School- $3,300,000,000 <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 5.28pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">• Volunteer Assistance- No charge <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Transportation: <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 5.28pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">• Gas- $2,200,000 (Based on a 20 gallon tank for 4.00 a gallon, prices can range due to the differences in gas) <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 5.28pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">• Drivers- $1,320,000,000 <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">TOTAL: <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">$4,663,434,000

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