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\"\"The Boyd Center for Community Schools, the core initiative of UT\u2019s University-Assisted Community Schools (UACS) strategy, has been a hub for community school research and operations for more than 20 years. University-Assisted Community Schools (UACS)<\/b> are community schools in which universities serve as a core partner in providing broadly based, sustained support. Academic partnerships connect the university\u2019s and school\u2019s curricula through a common focus on helping solve community-identified problems. This approach is designed to simultaneously improve community wellbeing and advance research, teaching, and learning (K-16+).<\/p>\n

For more information about University-Assisted Community Schools, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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