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to reduce the impact on child development 
of substance abuse, child abuse, domestic 
violence, and other high risk behaviors that 
compromise healthy development; 
‘‘(vi) promote partnerships between 
Head Start agencies and other organiza-
tions in order to enhance Head Start pro-
gram quality, including partnerships to 
promote inclusion of more books in Head 
Start classrooms; 
‘‘(vii) identify other resources and or-
ganizations (both public and private) for 
the provision of in-kind services to Head 
Start agencies in the State; and 
‘‘(viii) work with the State Early 
Learning Council in order to assist the ef-
forts of Head Start agencies to engage in 
effective coordination and collaboration. 
‘‘(6) EARLY HEAD START.— 
‘‘(A) 
AMOUNTS
RESERVED.—From 
amounts reserved and allotted pursuant to 
paragraphs (2) and (4), the Secretary shall use, 
for grants for programs described in section 
645A(a), a portion of the combined total of 
such amounts that is not less than 12 percent 
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for fiscal year 2008, not less than 14 percent 
for fiscal year 2009, not less than 16 percent 
for fiscal year 2010, not less than 18 percent 
for fiscal year 2011, and not less than 20 per-
cent for fiscal year 2012 of the amount appro-
priated pursuant to section 639(a). 
‘‘(B) LIMITATIONS.— 
‘‘(i) For any fiscal year for which 
the Secretary determines that the 
amount appropriated under section 
639(a) is not sufficient to permit the 
Secretary to reserve the portion de-
scribed in subparagraph (A) without 
reducing the number of children 
served by Head Start programs or ad-
versely affecting the quality of Head 
Start services, relative to the number 
of children served and the quality of 
the services during the preceding fis-
cal year, the Secretary may reduce the 
percentage of funds required to be re-
served for the portion described in 
subparagraph (A) for the fiscal year 
for which the determination is made, 
but not below the percentage required 
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to be so reserved for the preceding fis-
cal year. 
‘‘(ii) For any fiscal year for 
which the amount appropriated under 
section 639(a) is reduced to a level 
that requires a lower amount to be 
made available under this subchapter 
to Head Start agencies and entities 
described in section 645A, relative to 
the amount made available to such 
agencies and entities for the preceding 
fiscal year, adjusted as described in 
paragraph (3)(A)(ii), the Secretary 
shall proportionately reduce— 
‘‘(I) 
the 
amounts 
made 
available to such entities for pro-
grams carried out under section 
645A; and 
‘‘(II) the amounts made 
available to such Head Start 
agencies for Head Start pro-
grams. 
‘‘(7) For purposes of this subsection, the term 
‘State’ does not include Guam, American Samoa, the 
Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern 
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Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micro-
nesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the 
Republic of Palau.’’. 
(b) SERVICE DELIVERY MODELS.—Section 640(f) of 
the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9835(f)) is amended to 
read as follows: 
‘‘(f) SERVICE DELIVERY MODELS.— 
‘‘(1) Not later than 1 year after the date of the 
enactment of the Improving Head Start Act of 
2007, the Secretary shall establish procedures to en-
able Head Start agencies to develop locally designed 
or specialized service delivery models to address local 
community needs, including models that leverage the 
existing capacity and capabilities of the delivery sys-
tem of early childhood education and child care. 
‘‘(2) In establishing the procedures, the Sec-
retary shall establish procedures to provide for— 
‘‘(A) the conversion of part-day programs 
to full-day programs or part-day slots to full- 
day slots; and 
‘‘(B) serving additional infants and tod-
dlers pursuant to section 645(a)(4).’’. 
(c) EXPANSION OF HEAD START PROGRAMS.—Sec-
tion 640(g) of the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9835(g)) 
is amended in paragraph (2)— 
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(1) by striking ‘‘For the purpose of expanding 
Head Start programs, in’’ and inserting ‘‘In’’, and 
(2) by amending subparagraphs (C) through 
(H) to read as follows: 
‘‘(C) the extent to which the applicant has un-
dertaken community-wide strategic planning and 
needs assessments involving other community orga-
nizations and local public agencies serving children 
and families with Federal, State, or local funds (in-
cluding organizations and agencies providing family 
support services, child abuse prevention services, 
protective services, and foster care, and organiza-
tions serving families in whose homes English is not 
the language customarily spoken), and individuals, 
organizations, and public entities serving children 
with disabilities or homeless children, including the 
local educational agency liaison designated under 
section 722(g)(1)(J)(ii) of the McKinney-Vento 
Homeless 
Assistance 
Act 
(42 
U.S.C. 
11432(g)(1)(J)(ii)); 
‘‘(D) the extent to which the family and com-
munity needs assessment of the applicant reflects a 
need to provide full working-day or full calendar 
year services and the extent to which, and manner 
in which, the applicant demonstrates the ability to 
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collaborate and participate with the State and local 
community providers of child care or preschool serv-
ices to provide full working-day full calendar year 
services; 
‘‘(E) the number of eligible children in each 
community who are not participating in a Head 
Start program or any other early childhood program; 
‘‘(F) the concentration of low-income families in 
each community; 
‘‘(G) the extent to which the applicant proposes 
to foster partnerships with other service providers in 
a manner that will leverage the existing delivery sys-
tems of such services and enhance the resource ca-
pacity of the applicant; 
‘‘(H) the extent to which the applicant, in pro-
viding services, successfully coordinated its activities 
with the local educational agency serving the com-
munity involved, (including the local educational 
agency 
liaison 
designated 
under 
section 
722(g)(1)(J)(ii) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11432(g)(1)(J)(ii))) and 
with schools in which children participating in a 
Head Start program operated by such agency will 
enroll following such program, regarding such serv-
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ices and the education services provided by such 
local educational agency; and 
‘‘(I) the amount of funds used by such agency 
to pay administrative expenses and the amount of 
available funds received by such agency under this 
section to service each enrolled child.’’. 
(d) ENROLLMENT.—Section 640(g) of the Head 
Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9835(g)) is amended by adding at 
the end the following: 
‘‘(5) In the event that the amounts appropriated to 
carry out the program under this subchapter do not exceed 
the amount appropriated in the prior fiscal year, or exceed 
the amount appropriated in the prior fiscal year by an 
amount equal to less than the percentage change in the 
Consumer Price Index For All Urban Consumers, as pub-
lished by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Head Start 
grantees may negotiate with the Secretary a reduced fund-
ed enrollment level without a reduction in the grant 
amount if such grantee can demonstrate that such reduc-
tion is necessary to maintain the quality of services. 
‘‘(A) In accordance with this paragraph, the 
Secretary shall set up a process for grantees to ne-
gotiate the above-mentioned reduced funded enroll-
ment level. 
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‘‘(B) Under the conditions detailed in this para-
graph, the Secretary shall be required to notify 
grantees of their right to negotiate a reduced funded 
enrollment level if such grantee can demonstrate 
that such reduction is necessary to maintain the 
quality of services.’’. 
(e) TRANSPORTATION SAFETY.— 
(1) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary shall issue 
regulations establishing requirements for the safety 
features, and the safe operation, of vehicles used by 
Head Start agencies to transport children partici-
pating in Head Start programs. 
(2) GOOD
CAUSE
WAIVER
AUTHORITY.—The 
Secretary shall allow Head Start agencies to annu-
ally request a good cause exception to the require-
ments of regulations promulgated under paragraph 
(1) for one or more vehicles used by the agency or 
its designee in transporting children enrolled in a 
Head Start program or an Early Head Start pro-
gram if— 
(A) such requirements would create a safe-
ty hazard in the circumstances faced by such 
agency; or 
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