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extracurricular activity. The Corps members would also focus on curbing America39。 s dropout epidemic. Right now, 50% of the dropouts e from 15% of the high schools in the ., most of them located in highpoverty city neighborhoods and throughout the South. The Education Corps would focus on those troubled school districts. 5. Institute a Summer of Service For many teenagers, the summer between middle school and high school is an awkward time. They39。 re too young to get a real job and too old to be babysat. Welltodo families can afford summer camps and exotic learning opportunities, but they39。 re a minority. Shirley Sagawa, an expert on youth policy and an architect of the AmeriCorps legislation, is proposing a Summer of Service. One hundred thousand students would volunteer for anizations like City Year, a national volunteering program and think tank, or Citizen Schools, which anizes afterschool activities for middle schoolers, and run summer programs for younger students in exchange for a $500 college scholarship. Senators Christopher Dodd (Democrat, Conn.) and Thad Cochran (Republican, Miss.) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (Democrat, Conn.) have sponsored a bill that would support a service rite of passage for students before they begin high school. 6. Build a Health Corps There are nearly 7 million American children who are eligible for but not enrolled in governmentsponsored healthinsurance programs. Health Corps volunteers would assist the mostly lowine families of these children in accessing available public insurance offerings like the Children39。 s Health Insurance Program. These volunteers could also act as nonmedical support staff such as caseworkers and munity education specialists in underserved rural health clinics — which have less than threequarters of the nonmedical staffing they need, according to Voices for National Service, a coalition of service anizations that advocates expanding federal service programs. The oneyear experience in the Health Corps could lead these volunteers toward careers in nursing or medicine, helping to redress gaps that have left the . with a dearth of qualified nurses and medical professionals. 7. Launch a Green Corps This would be a bination of .39。 s Civilian Conservation Corps — which put 3 million boys in the woods to build the foundation of our modern park system — and a group that would improve national infrastructure and bat climate change. When Roosevelt created the CCC, there were 25 million young Americans who were unemployed. Today there are million Americans between 18 and 24 who are neither employed nor in school. These young men and women could address America39。 s welldocumented infrastructure problems. The Green Corps could reclaim polluted streams and blighted urban lots。 repair and rehabilitate railroad lines, ports, schools and hospitals。 and build energyefficient green housing for elderly and lowine people. 8. Recruit a RapidResponse Reserve Corps The disarray and lack of a coordinated response to 9/11 and Katrina tell us there is a role volunteers can play in responding quickly to disasters and emergencies. The new RapidResponse Reserve Corps would consist of retired military and National Guard personnel as well as national and munityservice program alumni to focus on disaster preparedness and immediate response to local and national disasters. The program would initially train 50,000 members, who could be deployed for twoweek periods in response to emergencies and serve under the guidance of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. 9. Start a NationalService Academy Picture West Point, but instead of learning how to fire an M4 and reading The Art of War, students would be studying the Federalist papers and learning how to transform a failing public school. Conceived by two former Teach for America corps members, Chris Myers Asch and Shawn Raymond, the . Public Service Academy would give undergraduates a fouryear education in exchange for a fiveyear mitment to public service after they graduate. The idea is to provide a focused education for people who will serve in the public sector — either the federal, state or local government — and thereby create a new generation of civic leaders. Asch and Raymond were so dismayed by the government39。 s response to Katrina that they wanted to create a new generation of people who were idealistic about government. We need an institution that systematically develops leadership, says Asch. We need to elevate it in the eyes of young people so we can attract the best and the brightest. The idea has been endorsed by Hillary Clinton and Pennsylvanian Republican Senator Arlen Specter, who are cosponsors of legislation that would allocate $164 million per year for the envisioned 5,000student academy. 10. Create a BabyBoomer Education Bond Over the next 20 years, 78 million baby boomers will be eligible to retire. That is, if they can afford to — and if they want to. According to an AARP survey, 80% of Americans between 50 and 60 said they were planning to work during retirement. Many seniors are interested in careers that are influenced by a spirit of service. Over half want to work in the education, healthcare and nonprofit sector, says Marc Freedman, founder and CEO of Civic Ventures and cofounder of Experience Corps. Experience Corps is the largest AmeriCorps program for people over 55。 it consists of teams of 10 to 15 people working to improve reading for students in kindergarten through third grade. Just as AmeriCorps members receive scholarships, babyboomer volunteers would be able to designate a scholarship of $1,000 for every 500 hours of munity service they plete. The $1,000 would be deposited into an education savings account or a 529 fund to be used by the volunteer39。 s children or grandchildren。