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Old 02-25-2019 | 09:51 AM
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Default So, What Really IS a CBO?

Been wandering through US Code. And while the definition of CBO is out there, as you dig deeper it seems rather vague.

According to 20 U.S.C.A § 7801(5), the term “community-based organization” means “a public or private nonprofit organization of demonstrated effectiveness that:
(A) is representative of a community or significant segments of a community; and
(B) provides educational or related services to individuals in the community.”

Sounds simple enough. But if you look at their meaning of "Related Services" you will find:
Related Services - (A)The term “related services” means transportation, and such developmental, corrective, and other supportive services (including speech-language pathology and audiology services, interpreting services, psychological services, physical and occupational therapy, recreation, including therapeutic recreation, social work services, school nurse services designed to enable a child with a disability to receive a free appropriate public education as described in the individualized education program of the child, counseling services, including rehabilitation counseling, orientation and mobility services, and medical services, except that such medical services shall be for diagnostic and evaluation purposes only) as may be required to assist a child with a disability to benefit from special education, and includes the early identification and assessment of disabling conditions in children. (B)The term does not include a medical device that is surgically implanted, or the replacement of such device.

Huh!

Then doing some more research on CBO I find this:
The term “community-based organization” means a private nonprofit organization of demonstrated effectiveness, Indian tribe, or tribally sanctioned educational authority, that is representative of a community or significant segments of a community and that provides educational or related services to individuals in the community. Such term includes a Native Hawaiian or Native American Pacific Islander native language educational organization.

I'm beginning to wonder just what is required to be a CBO. And whether the AMA really meets the definition? Maybe that's why the FAA has yet to identify any CBO's. They don't know what one really is either.