Service-Learning After Learn and Serve America: How Five States Are Moving Forward

The loss of federal support coupled with state budget shortfalls has prompted a transition period for the service-learning field. Five advocates across the country are choosing to move beyond the devastating budget cut and seize the opportunity to refocus efforts to expand high-quality service-learning. This set of case studies aims to highlight policy and practice in several states where service-learning experts are designing and implementing agendas to maintain and advance statewide service-learning initiatives with no federal aid and no new state aid.