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“Since the COVID-19 pandemic, students鈥� rising mental health needs, chronic absence, academic challenges, and struggles to reengage with school have spurred interest in whole child education and pushed practitioners and policymakers alike to reimagine what school can look like. Community schools are a strategy designed to address these issues, focused on simultaneously improving student well-being and expanding educational experiences and outcomes. Across the country, major investments in community schools are driving interest in how increased access to funding and the expansion of the strategy are affecting students and families. This is especially true in California, which has committed $4.1 billion to support the strategy in nearly 2,500 schools across the state. Through this funding, the California 蘑菇视频 Partnership Program (CCSPP) grants have helped spur the scaling of community schools in districts throughout California, necessitating the hiring and development of community school鈥搒pecific personnel, namely community school coordinators.”