I
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3201
To establish comprehensive early childhood education programs, early child-
hood education staff development programs, model Federal Government
early childhood education programs, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SEPTEMBER 30, 1993
Mrs. MINK (for herself, Mr. ABERCROMBIE, Mr. BLACKWELL, Mr. BECERRA,
Ms. BYRNE, Mrs. CLAYTON, Mr. COLEMAN, Mrs. COLLINS of Illinois,
Miss COLLINS of Michigan, Mr. DELLUMS, Mr. DE LUGO, Mr. EDWARDS
of California, Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA, Mr. FILNER, Mr. GILMAN, Mrs. KEN-
NELLY, Mr. MARTINEZ, Mr. MATSUI, Ms. MCKINNEY, Mr. MILLER of
California, Mr. MINETA, Mr. NADLER, Mr. OWENS, Ms. PELOSI, Mr.
RANGEL, Mr. SANDERS, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. TOWNS, Mr. TUCKER,
Mrs. UNSOELD, Mr. WASHINGTON, Ms. WATERS, and Ms. WOOLSEY) in-
troduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Edu-
cation and Labor
A BILL
To establish comprehensive early childhood education pro-
grams, early childhood education staff development pro-
grams, model Federal Government early childhood edu-
cation programs, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the
‘‘Comprehensive Early Childhood Education Act of 1993’’.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The Table of Contents
for this Act is as Follows—
Sec. 1. Short Title; Table of contents.
Sec. 2. Findings.
Sec. 3. Purpose.
Sec. 4. Authorization of appropriations.
Sec. 5. Allocation of funds.
TITLE I—COMPREHENSIVE EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
PROGRAMS
Sec. 101. Program authorized.
Sec. 102. Prime sponsors of early childhood education programs.
Sec. 103. Early childhood education councils.
Sec. 104. Comprehensive early childhood education plans.
Sec. 105. Project applications.
Sec. 106. Special grants to States.
Sec. 107. Additional conditions for programs including construction.
Sec. 108. Use of public facilities for early childhood education programs.
Sec. 109. Payments.
TITLE II—TRAINING, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, PLANNING, AND
EVALUATION
Sec. 201. Preservice and inservice training.
Sec. 202. Technical assistance and planning.
Sec. 203. Evaluation.
Sec. 204. Federal standards for early childhood education.
Sec. 205. Development of uniform minimum code for facilities.
TITLE III—MODEL FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CHILD
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
Sec. 301. Program authorized.
Sec. 302. Payments.
TITLE IV—RESEARCH AND DEMONSTRATIONS
Sec. 401. Declaration of purposes.
Sec. 402. Research and demonstration projects.
Sec. 403. Coordination of research.
TITLE V—GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 501. Definitions.
Sec. 502. Nutrition.
Sec. 503. Special provisions.
Sec. 504. Withholding grants.
Sec. 505. Public information.
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress makes the following findings—
(1) millions of children in the Nation are suffer-
ing unnecessary harm from the lack of adequate
early childhood education;
(2) comprehensive early childhood education
programs, including a full range of health and social
services, are essential to the achievement of the full
potential of the Nation’s children and should be
available as a matter of right to all children whose
parents or legal guardians shall request them re-
gardless of economic, social, and family back-
grounds;
(3) children with special needs must receive full
consideration in planning any early childhood edu-
cation programs and, pending the availability of
such programs for all children, priority must be
given to preschool children with the greatest eco-
nomic and social need;
(4) no mother should be forced to work outside
the home as a condition for availing herself to early
childhood education programs, such programs are
essential to allow many parents to undertake or con-
tinue full or part-time employment, training, or edu-
cation;
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(5) comprehensive early childhood education
programs not only provide a means of delivering a
full range of essential services to children, but can
also furnish meaningful employment opportunities
for many individuals, including older persons, par-
ents, young persons, and volunteers;
(6) it is essential that the planning and oper-
ation of such programs be undertaken as a partner-
ship of parents, community, and State and local gov-
ernment with appropriate assistance from the Fed-
eral Government.
SEC. 3. PURPOSE.
It is the purpose of this Act to provide every child
with a fair and full opportunity to reach his or her full
potential by establishing and expanding comprehensive
early childhood education programs, and services designed
to—
(1) assure the sound and coordinated develop-
ment of these programs;
(2) recognize and build upon the experience and
success gained through the Headstart program and
similar efforts;
(3) furnish early childhood education services
for those children who need them most, with special
emphasis on preschool programs for economically
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disadvantaged children, and for children of working
mothers and single parent families; and
(4) provide that decisions on the nature of
funding of such programs be made at the commu-
nity level with the direct participation of parents of
the children and other individuals and organizations
in the community interested in early childhood edu-
cation serve in the development, conduct, and overall
direction of programs at the community level, and to
establish the legislative framework for the future ex-
pansion of such programs to universally available
early childhood education services.
SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
(a) For the purpose of carrying out this Act, there
is authorized to be appropriated $2,000,000,000 for the
fiscal year beginning October 1, 1995 and such sums as
may be necessary in each of the succeeding fiscal years
through 1999. Any amounts appropriated for such fiscal
year which are not obligated at the end of such fiscal year
may be obligated in the succeeding fiscal year.
(b) For the purpose of providing training, technical
assistance, planning, and such other activities as the Sec-
retary deems necessary and appropriate to prepare for the
implementation of this title, there is authorized to be ap-
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propriated $100,000,000 for the fiscal year beginning Oc-
tober 1, 1994.
SEC. 5. ALLOCATION OF FUNDS.
(a) The amounts appropriated for carrying out this
title for any fiscal year beginning October 1, 1995 shall
be made available in the following manner:
(1) $500,000,000 shall be used for the purpose
of providing assistance under titles I, II, and IV of
this Act for early childhood education programs fo-
cused upon young children from low-income families.
(2) Not to exceed 10 percent of the remaining
amounts so appropriated shall be used for the pur-
pose of carrying out titles II, III, and IV of this Act,
as the Secretary deems appropriate; and
(3) The remainder of such amounts shall be
used for the purpose of carrying out title I of this
Act.
(b)(1) From the amount available for carrying out
comprehensive early childhood education programs under
title I of this Act, the Secretary shall reserve the follow-
ing—
(A) not less than that proportion of the total
amount available for carrying out title I as is equiva-
lent to that proportion which the total number of
children of migrant agricultural workers bears to the
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total number of economically disadvantaged children
in the United States, which shall be apportioned
among programs serving children of migrant agricul-
tural workers on an equitable basis, and to the ex-
tent practicable in proportion to the relative num-
bers of children served in each such program;
(B) not less than that proportion of the total
amount available for carrying out title I as is equiva-
lent to that proportion which the total number of
children on Federal and State Indian reservations
bears to the total number of economically disadvan-
taged children in the United States, which shall be
apportioned among programs serving children on
Federal and State Indian reservation on an equi-
table basis, and to the extent practicable in propor-
tion to the relative number of children residing on
each such reservation;
(C) not less than that proportion of the total
amount available for carrying out title I as is equiva-
lent to that proportion which the total number of
Native Hawaiian children bears to the total number
of economically disadvantaged children in the United
States, which shall be apportioned among programs
serving Native Hawaiian children on an equitable
basis, and to the extent practicable in proportion to
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the relative numbers of children served in each such
program;
(D) not less than 10 percent of the total
amount available for carrying out title I, which shall
be made available for the purposes of section
101(b)(2)(I) of such title (relating to special activi-
ties for children with disabilities); and
(E) not to exceed 5 percent of the total amount
available for carrying out title I, which shall be
made available under section 102(f)(3) of such title
(relating to model programs)
(2) The remainder of the amounts available for carry-
ing out title I of this Act shall be allocated by the Sec-
retary on an equitable basis, and to the extent practi-
cable such funds shall be apportioned in such a manner
that—
(A) 50 percent of such remainder shall be ap-
portioned among the States and localities within
each State in proportion to the relative numbers of
economically disadvantaged children in each such
State and locality, respectively;
(B) 25 percent of such remainder shall be ap-
portioned among the States and localities within
each State in proportion to the relative numbers of
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children who have not attained six years of age in
each such State or locality, respectively;
(C) 25 percent of such remainder shall be ap-
portioned among the States and localities within
each State in proportion to the relative numbers of
children of working mothers and single parents in
each such State and locality, respectively.
For the purposes of clauses (A), (B), and (C) of this para-
graph, there shall be excluded those children who are
counted under clauses (A), (B), and (C) of subsection
(b)(1) of this section.
(3) In determining the numbers of children for pur-
poses of allocating and apportioning funds under this sec-
tion, the Secretary shall use the most recent satisfactory
data available.
(c) Not to exceed 5 percent of the total funds appor-
tioned for use within a State pursuant to subsection (b)(2)
may be made available for grants to the State to carry
out the provisions of section 106 of this Act.
(d) As soon as practicable after funds are appro-
priated to carry out this Act for any fiscal year, the Sec-
retary shall publish in the Federal Register the apportion-
ments required by this section.
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TITLE 
I—COMPREHENSIVE
EARLY 
CHILDHOOD 
EDU-
CATION PROGRAMS
SEC. 101. PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Education shall
provide financial assistance for carrying out early child-
hood education programs under this part to prime spon-
sors and to other public and private nonprofit agencies
and organizations pursuant to plans and applications ap-
proved in accordance with the provisions of this title.
(b) USE OF FUNDS.—Funds available for this part
may be used (in accordance with approved applications)
for the following services and activities—
(1) planning and developing early childhood
education programs, including the operation of pilot
programs to test the effectiveness of new concepts,
programs, and delivery systems;
(2) establishing, maintaining, and operating
early childhood education program, which may in-
clude—
(A) comprehensive physical and mental
health, social, and cognitive development serv-
ices necessary for children participating in the
program to profit fully from their educational
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opportunities and to attain their maximum po-
tential;
(B) food and nutritional services (including
family consultation);
(C) rental, remodeling, renovation, alter-
ation, construction, or acquisition of facilities,
including mobile facilities, and the acquisition
of necessary equipment and supplies;
(D) programs designed (i) to meet the spe-
cial needs of minority groups, Native Ameri-
cans, Alaskan Natives and Native Hawaiians,
and migrant children with particular emphasis
on the needs of children with limited English
proficiency for the development of skills in Eng-
lish and another language spoken in the home,
and (ii) to meet the needs of all children to un-
derstand the history and cultural backgrounds
of the ethnic groups which belong to their com-
munities and the role of members of such eth-
nic groups in the history and cultural develop-
ment of the Nation and of the region in which
they reside;
(E) a program of daily activities designed
to develop fully each child’s potential;
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(F) other specially designed health, social,
and educational programs (including after
school, summer, weekend, vacation, and over-
night programs);
(G) medical, dental, psychological, edu-
cational, and other appropriate diagnosis, iden-
tification, and treatment of visual, hearing,
speech, nutritional, and other physical, mental,
and emotional barriers to full participation in
child education and development programs, in-
cluding programs for preschool and other chil-
dren who are emotionally disturbed;
(H) prenatal and other medical services to
expectant mothers who cannot afford such serv-
ices, designed to help reduce malnutrition, in-
fant and maternal mortality, and the incidence
of mental retardation and other disabling condi-
tions, and postpartum and other medical serv-
ices (including family planning information) to
such recent mothers;
(I) incorporation within early childhood
education programs of special activities de-
signed to identify and ameliorate identified
physical, mental, and emotional disabilities and
special learning disabilities;
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(J) preservice and inservice education and
other training for professional and paraprofes-
sional personnel;
(K) dissemination of information in the
functional language of those to be served to as-
sure that parents are well informed of early
childhood education programs available to them
and may participate in such programs;
(L) services, including in-home services,
and training in the fundamentals of child devel-
opment, for parents, older family members
functioning in the capacity of parents, youth,
and prospective parents;
(M) programs designed to extend com-
prehensive prekindergarten early childhood edu-
cation techniques and gains (particularly parent
participation) into kindergarten and early pri-
mary grades (one through three), in cooperation
with local educational agencies, including—
(i) the use of former assistant Head-
start teachers or similar early childhood
education teachers as instructional aides
(in addition to those employed by the
schools involved) working closely with
classroom teachers in the kindergarten and
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such early primary grades in which are en-
rolled children they taught in Headstart or
other early childhood programs;
(ii) providing for full participation of
parents of the children involved in program
planning, implementation, and decision-
making; and
(iii) for career development opportuni-
ties and advancement through continuing
education and training for instructional
aides involved (including teaching salaries,
educational stipends for tuition, books, and
tutoring, career counseling, arrangements
for academic credit for independent study,
fieldwork based on their teaching assign-
ments, and preservice and inservice train-
ing) and for the classroom teachers and
principals involved; and
(N) such other services and activities as
the Secretary deems appropriate in furtherance
of the purposes of this part; and
(3) staff and other administrative expenses of
early childhood education councils established and
operated in accordance with this title.
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SEC. 102. PRIME SPONSORS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVEL-
OPMENT PROGRAMS.
(a) In accordance with the provisions of this section,
a State, locality, combination of localities, Indian tribe on
a Federal or State reservation, or public or private non-
profit agency or organization, meeting the requirements
of this Act may be designated by the Secretary as prime
sponsor for the purpose of entering into arrangements to
carry out early childhood education programs under this
part, upon the approval by the Secretary of a prime spon-
sorship plan, which includes provisions—
(1) describing the prime sponsorship area to be
served;
(2) setting forth satisfactory provisions of es-
tablishing and maintaining an Early Childhood Edu-
cation Council which meets the requirements of sec-
tion 103 of this Act;
(3) providing that the Early Childhood Edu-
cation Council shall be responsible for developing
and preparing a comprehensive early childhood edu-
cation plan for each fiscal year and any modification
thereof;
(4) setting forth arrangements under which the
Early Childhood Education Council will be respon-
sible for planning, supervising, coordinating, mon-
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itoring, and evaluating early childhood education
programs in the prime sponsorship area;
(5) providing adequate assurances that staff
and other administrative expenses for the Early
Childhood Education Council under subsection (b)
paragraph (3) of section 101 will not exceed 5 per-
cent of the total cost of comprehensive early child-
hood education programs administered by the prime
sponsor unless such percentage limitation is in-
creased to give special consideration to initial costs
in the first operations year or to other special needs,
in accordance with regulations which the Secretary
shall prescribe; and
(6) providing assurances, to the extent nec-
essary to carry out comprehensive early childhood
education programs in the area to be served, of the
capacity to provide, or to enter into arrangements
with appropriate State, local or other agencies for
linkages to provide—
(A) related family, social and rehabilitative
service;
(B) coordination with educational agencies
and providers of educational services;
(C) health (including family planning) and
mental health services;
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(D) nutrition services; and
(E) training of professional and para-
professional personnel.
(b) The Secretary shall approve a prime sponsorship
plan submitted by a locality which is a (1) city, (2) coun-
try, or (3) other unit of general local government, if the
Secretary determines that the plan so submitted meets the
requirements of subsection (a) of this section and includes
adequate provisions for carrying out comprehensive early
childhood education programs in area of such locality. In
the event that an area under the jurisdiction of a unit
of general local government described in clause (1), (2),
or (3) of the preceding sentence includes any common geo-
graphical area with that covered by another such unit of
general local government, the Secretary shall designate to
serve such area the unit of general local government which
the Secretary determines has the capability of more effec-
tively carrying out the purposes of this title with respect
to such area and which has submitted a plan which meets
the requirements of this section and includes adequate
provisions for carrying out comprehensive early childhood
education programs in such area.
(c)(1) In the event that the Secretary determines that
a locality fails to meet the requirements for designation
as a prime sponsor under subsection (b) of this sec-
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tion for the reason that it lacks the capability of meeting
the requirements of clause (5) (concerning the limitation
in administrative expenses for Early Childhood Education
Councils) or clause (6) (concerning the capacity to provide
or to enter into arrangements for linkages to provide serv-
ices related to early childhood education) of subsection (a),
the Secretary shall take steps to encourage the submission
of a prime sponsorship plan, covering the area of such lo-
cality, by a combination of localities which are adjoining
and possess a sufficient commonality of interest.
(2) The Secretary shall approve a prime sponsorship
plan submitted by a combination of localities if the Sec-
retary determines that the plan so submitted meets the
requirements of subsection (a) of this section and includes
adequate provisions for carrying out comprehensive early
childhood education programs in the area covered by the
combination of such localities.
(d) The Secretary shall approve a prime sponsorship
plan submitted by an Indian tribe on a Federal or State
reservation if the Secretary determines that the plan so
submitted meets the requirements of subsection (a) of this
section and includes adequate provisions for carrying out
comprehensive early childhood education programs in the
area to be served.
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(e) In the event that the Secretary determines, with
respect to the area of a particular locality, that a prime
sponsorship plan meeting the requirements of this section
has not been submitted by a locality or combination of
localities covering such areas, or by an Indian tribe on
a Federal or State reservation, or in the event that prime
sponsorship designation has been withdrawn in accordance
with subsection (h) of this section, the Secretary may, with
respect to the impending fiscal year when no such prime
sponsorship designation will be in effect, approve a plan
submitted by the State which meets the requirements of
subsection (a) of this section and includes adequate provi-
sions for carrying out comprehensive early childhood edu-
cation program in each such area.
(f) The Secretary may approve a prime sponsorship
plan submitted by a public or private nonprofit agency,
including but not limited to a community action agency,
single purpose Headstart agency, community development
corporation, parent cooperative, organization of migrant
agricultural workers, organization of Native Americans,
Alaskan Natives or Native Hawaiians, employer organiza-
tions, or public or private educational agency or institu-
tion, the Secretary determines that the plan so submitted
meets the requirements of subsection (a) of this section
and includes—
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(1) provisions setting forth arrangements for
serving children in a neighborhood or other area
possessing a commonality of interest in the area of
any locality with respect to which there is not prime
sponsorship designation in effect, or with respect to
any portion of an area where the prime sponsor is
found not to be satisfactorily implementing early
childhood education program which adequately
meets the purposes of this part, or for making avail-
able special services, in accordance with criteria es-
tablished by the Secretary, designed to meet the
needs of economically disadvantaged or preschool
children; or
(2) arrangements for providing comprehensive
early childhood education programs on a year-round
basis to children of migrant agricultural workers and
their families; or
(3) arrangements for carrying out model pro-
grams especially designed to be responsive to the
needs 
of 
economically 
disadvantaged, 
minority
groups, or limited English proficient preschool chil-
dren.
(g) The Governor of the State shall in accordance
with regulations which the Secretary shall prescribe, be
given a reasonable opportunity to review and offer rec-
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ted by the clerk of the court to the Secretary. The Sec-
retary thereupon shall file in the court the record of the
proceeding on which the Secretary based his/her action,
as provided in section 2112 of title 28, United States
Code.
(2) The court shall have jurisdiction to affirm the ac-
tion of the Secretary or to set it aside, in whole or in part.
The judgement of the court shall be subject to review by
the Supreme Court of the United States upon certiorari
or certification as provided in section 1254 of title 28,
United States Code.
SEC. 103. EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION COUNCILS.
(a) Each prime sponsor designed under section 102
shall establish and maintain an Early Childhood Edu-
cation Council consisting of not less than ten members
comprised as follows—
(1) not less than half of the members of such
Council shall be parents of children served in early
childhood education programs under this Act; and
(2) the remaining members of such Council
shall be appointed by the chief executive officer or
officers of the prime sponsor to represent the public,
but
(A) not less than half of such members
shall be persons who are broadly representative
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of the general public, including government
agencies, public and private agencies and orga-
nizations in such field as economic opportunity,
health, education, welfare, employment and
training, business or financial organizations or
institutions, labor unions, and employers, and
who are approved by the parent members de-
scribed in paragraph (1), and
(B) the remaining members the number of
which shall be either equal to or one less than
the number of members appointed under clause
(A), shall be persons who are particularly
skilled by virtue of training or experience in
early childhood education, child development,
child health, child welfare, or other child serv-
ices, except that the Secretary may waive the
requirements of this clause (B) to the extent
that the Secretary determines, in accordance
with regulations prescribed by the Secretary,
that such person are not available to the area
to be served.
(b) In accordance with procedures with the Secretary
shall establish pursuant to regulations, each prime sponsor
designed under section 102 shall provide, with respect to
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the Early Childhood Education Council established and
maintained by such prime sponsor, that—
(1) the parent members described in paragraph
(1) of subsection (a) of this section shall be chosen
by the membership of Headstart policy committees
where they exist, and, at the earliest practicable
time, by project policy committees established pursu-
ant to section 105(a)(2) of this Act;
(2) not less than one-fourth of the total mem-
bership of such Council shall be persons broadly rep-
resentative of the economically disadvantaged;
(3) the terms of office and any other policies
and procedures of an organizational nature, includ-
ing nomination and election procedures, are appro-
priate in accordance with the purposes of this Act;
(4) such Council shall have responsibility for
approving basic goals, policies, actions, and proce-
dures for the prime sponsor, including policies with
respect to planning, general supervision and over-
sight, overall coordination, personnel, budgeting,
funding of projects, and monitoring and evaluation
of projects; and
(5) such Council shall, upon its own initiatives
or upon request of a project applicant or any other
party in interest, conduct public hearings before act-
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ing upon applications for financial assistance sub-
mitted by project applicants under this Act.
SEC. 
104. 
COMPREHENSIVE 
EARLY 
CHILDHOOD 
EDU-
CATION PLANS.
(a) Financial assistance under this part may be pro-
vided by the Secretary for any fiscal year to a prime spon-
sor designated pursuant to section 102 only pursuant to
a comprehensive early childhood education plan which is
submitted by such prime sponsor and approved by the Sec-
retary in accordance with the provisions of this part. Any
such plan shall set forth a comprehensive program provid-
ing early childhood education services in the prime spon-
sorship area which—
(1) identifies all early childhood education
needs and goals within the area and describes the
purposes for which the financial assistance will be
used;
(2) meets the needs of children in the prime
sponsorship area, to the extent that available funds
can be reasonably expected to have an effective im-
pact, including infant care and before and after
school programs for children in school with priority
to children who have not attained six years of age;
(3) gives priority to meeting the special needs
of economically disadvantaged children by providing
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that not less than 65 percent of the total cost of
programs receiving financial assistance under section
4(b) shall be for early childhood education programs
for economically disadvantaged children;
(4) gives priority thereafter to providing early
childhood education programs and services to chil-
dren of single parents and working mothers not cov-
ered under paragraph (3);
(5) provides procedures for the approval of
project applications submitted in accordance with
section 105;
(6) provides, in the case of a prime sponsor lo-
cated within or adjacent to a metropolitan area, for
coordination with other prime sponsors located with-
in such metropolitan area, and arrangements for co-
operative funding where appropriate, and particu-
larly for such coordination where appropriate meet
the needs for early childhood education services of
children of parents working or participating in train-
ing or otherwise occupied during the day within a
prime sponsorship area other than that in which
they reside;
(7) provides that, to the extent feasible, each
program within the prime sponsorship area will in-
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clude children from a range of socioeconomic back-
grounds;
(8) provides comprehensive services (A) to meet
the special needs of minority group children of mi-
grant agricultural workers with particular emphasis
on the needs of children from bilingual families for
development of skills in English and in the other
language spoken in the home, and (B) to meet the
need of all children to understand the history and
cultural background of minority groups which belong
to the communities and the role of members of such
minority groups in the history and cultural develop-
ment of the Nation and the region in which they re-
side;
(9) provides equitably for the early childhood
education needs of children from each minority
group or significant segment of the economically dis-
advantaged residing within the area covered;
(10) provides, to the extent possible, for coordi-
nation of early childhood education programs so as
to keep family units intact or in close proximity dur-
ing the day;
(11) provides for the regular and frequent dis-
semination of information in the functional language
of those to be served, to assure that parents and in-
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terested persons in the community are fully informed
of the activities of the Early Childhood Education
Council and of delegate agencies;
(12) provides that, to the extent possible, unem-
ployed or low-income persons residing in commu-
nities served by such projects will receive jobs pro-
viding career ladder opportunities, including in-home
and part-time jobs, and opportunities for training in
programs assisted under title II of this Act;
(13) assures that procedures and mechanisms
for coordination have been developed in cooperation
with preschool program administrators and adminis-
trators of local educational agencies and non-public
schools, at the local level, to provide continuity be-
tween programs for preschool and elementary school
children and to coordinate programs conducted
under this part and programs conducted pursuant to
the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9831–9852) and the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965,
as amended.
(14) establishes arrangements in the area
served for the coordination of programs conducted
under the auspices of or with the support of busi-
ness or financial institutions or organizations, indus-
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try, labor, employee and labor-management organi-
zations, and other community groups;
(15) contains any arrangements for the delega-
tion, under the supervision of the Early Childhood
Education Council, to any public or private non-
profit agencies, institutions, or organizations, of re-
sponsibilities for the delivery of programs, services,
and activities for which financial assistance is pro-
vided under this title, or for any planning or evalua-
tion services to be made available with respect to
programs under this title; and
(16) contains plans for regularly conducting
surveys and analyses of needs for early childhood
education programs in the prime sponsorship area
and for submitting to the Secretary a comprehensive
annual report and evaluation in such form and con-
taining such information as the Secretary shall re-
quire by regulation.
(b) No comprehensive early childhood education plan
or modification thereof submitted by a prime sponsorship
under this section shall be approved by the Secretary un-
less the Secretary determines, in accordance with regula-
tions prescribed by the Secretary, that—
(1) each community action agency or single
purpose Headstart agency in the area to be served
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previously responsible for the administration of pro-
grams under this part or under the Head Start Act
(42 U.S.C. 9831–9852) has had an opportunity to
submit comments to the prime sponsor and to the
Secretary;
(2) the local educational agency for the area to
be served, and other appropriate educational and
training agencies and institutions, have had an op-
portunity to submit comments to the prime sponsor
and to the Secretary; and
(3) the Governor of the State has had an op-
portunity to submit comments to the prime sponsor
and to the Secretary.
(c) A comprehensive early childhood education plan
submitted under this section may be disapproved or a
prior approval withdrawn only if the Secretary, in accord-
ance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary, had
provided—
(1) written notice of intention to disapprove
such plan, including a statement of the reasons,
(2) reasonable time to submit corrective amend-
ments to such plan or undertake for a public hearing
upon which basis an appeal to the Secretary may be
taken as of right.
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(d) In order to contribute to the effective administra-
tion of this Act, the Secretary shall establish appropriate
procedures to permit prime sponsors to submit jointly a
single comprehensive early childhood education plan for
the areas served by such prime sponsors.
SEC. 105. PROJECT APPLICATIONS.
(a) Financial assistance under this Act may be pro-
vided to a project applicant for any fiscal year only pursu-
ant to a project application which is submitted by a public
or private agency and which provides that—
(1) funds will be provided for carrying out any
early childhood education program under this part
only to a qualified public or private agency or orga-
nization, including but not limited to a community
action agency, single purpose Headstart agency,
community development corporation, parent coopera-
tive, organization of migrant agricultural workers,
organization of Native Americans, Alaskan Natives,
and Native Hawaiians, private organization inter-
ested in early childhood education, employer or busi-
ness organization, labor union, employee or labor
management organization, or public or private edu-
cational agency or institution;
(2) project policy committees shall be estab-
lished and maintained, consisting of not less than
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ten members, composed so that (A) not less than
half of the members of each such committee shall be
parents of children served in such projects, and (B)
the remaining members of such committee shall be
comprised—
(i) of persons who are representative of the
community and who shall be approved by the
parent members, and
(ii) of persons, the number of which shall
be not less than one-third nor more than one-
half of the number of members appointed under
clause (i), who are particularly skilled by virtue
of training or experience in early childhood edu-
cation, child health, child welfare, or other child
services, except that the Secretary may waive
the requirement of this clause (ii) to the extent
that he/she determines, in accordance with reg-
ulations prescribed by the Secretary, that such
persons are not available to the area to be
served;
(3) provision will be made for direct participa-
tion of such policy committees in the development
and preparation of project applications under this
part;
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(4) adequate provision will be made for training
and other administrative expenses of such policy
committee (including necessary expenses to enable
low-income members to participate in council or
committee meetings);
(5) project policy committees shall have respon-
sibility for approving basic goals, policies, actions,
and procedures for the project applicant, including
policies with respect to planning, overall conduct,
personnel, budgeting, location of centers and facili-
ties, and direction and evaluation of projects;
(6) programs assisted under this title will pro-
vide for such comprehensive health, nutritional, edu-
cation, social, and other services, as are necessary
for the full cognitive, emotional and physical devel-
opment of each participating child;
(7) adequate provision will be made for the reg-
ular and frequent dissemination of information in
the functional language of those to be served, to as-
sure that parents and interested persons are fully in-
formed of project activities.
(8) (A) no charge for services provided under
an early childhood education program will be made
with respect to any child who is economically dis-
advantaged, except to the extent that payment will
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be made by a third party (including a public agency)
which is authorized or required to pay for such serv-
ices; and
(B) such charges will be made with respect to
a child who is not economically disadvantaged in ac-
cordance with an appropriate fee schedule which
shall be established by the Secretary by regulation
and which is based upon the ability of the family to
pay for such services, including the extent to which
any third party (including a public agency) is au-
thorized or required to make payments for such
services:
(9) children will in no case be excluded from the
programs operated pursuant to this part because of
their participation in non-public preschool or school
programs or because of the intention of their par-
ents to enroll them in non-public schools when they
attain school age;
(10) program will, to the extent appropriate,
employ paraprofessional aides and volunteers, espe-
cially parents, older children, students, older per-
sons, and persons preparing for careers in early
childhood education programs;
(11) no person will be denied employment in
any program solely on the ground that he/she fails
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to meet State or local teacher certification stand-
ards;
(12) there are assurances satisfactory to the
Secretary that the nonFederal share requirements
will be met; and
(13) provisions will be made for such fiscal con-
trol and fund accounting procedures as the Sec-
retary shall prescribe to assure proper disbursement
of and accounting for Federal funds.
(b) A project application submitted in accordance
with subsection (a) of this section may be approved by
the Secretary if determined that it meets the purpose of
this title.
SEC. 106. SPECIAL GRANTS TO STATES.
Upon application submitted by any State, the Sec-
retary is authorized to provide financial assistance for use
by such State for carrying out activities for the purposes
of—
(1) identifying early childhood education goals
and needs within the State;
(2) assisting in the establishing of Early Child-
hood Education Councils and strengthening the ca-
pability of such Councils to effectively plan, super-
vise, coordinate, monitor, and evaluate early child-
hood education programs;
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(3) encouraging the cooperation and participa-
tion of State agencies in providing early childhood
education and related services, including health,
family planning, mental health, nutrition, and fam-
ily, social and rehabilitative services where requested
by appropriate prime sponsors in the development
and implementation of comprehensive early child-
hood education plans;
(4) encouraging the full utilization of resources
and facilities for early childhood education programs
within the State;
(5) disseminating the results of research on
early childhood education programs;
(6) conducting programs for the exchange of
personnel involved in early childhood education pro-
grams within the State;
(7) assisting public and private nonprofit agen-
cies and organization in the acquisition or improve-
ment of facilities for early childhood education pro-
grams;
(8) assessing State and local licensing codes as
they relate to early childhood education programs
within the State; and
(9) developing information useful in reviewing
prime sponsorship plans under section 102(g) and of
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Comprehensive Early Childhood Education Plans
under section 104(b)(3).
SEC. 107. ADDITIONAL CONDITIONS FOR PROGRAMS IN-
CLUDING CONSTRUCTION.
(a) Applications for financial assistance for projects
including construction may be approved only if the Sec-
retary determines that construction of such facilities is es-
sential to the provision of adequate early childhood edu-
cation services, and that rental, renovation, remodeling,
or leasing of adequate facilities is not practicable.
(b) If any facility assisted under this title shall cease
to be used for the purpose for which it was constructed,
the United States shall be entitled to recover from the ap-
plicant or other owner of the facility an amount which
bears to the then value of the facility (or so much thereof
as constituted an approved project) the same ratio as the
amount of such Federal funds bore to the cost of the facil-
ity financed with the aid of such funds, unless the Sec-
retary determines in accordance with regulations that
there is good cause for releasing the applicant or other
owner from the obligation to do so. Such value shall be
determined by agreement of the parties or by action
brought in the United States district court for the district
in which the facility is situated.
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(c) All laborers and mechanics employed by contrac-
tors or subcontractors on all construction, remodeling,
renovation, or alteration projects assisted under this part
shall be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing
on similar construction in the locality as determined by
the Secretary of Labor in accordance with the Davis-
Bacon Act, as amended (40 U.S.C. 276a–276a–5).
(d) Any Federal assistance for construction shall be
in the form of grants, and shall not be paid to other than
public or private nonprofit agencies and organizations.
Not more than 15 percent of the total financial assistance
provided to a prime sponsor under this part shall be used
for construction of facilities.
SEC. 108. USE OF PUBLIC FACILITIES FOR CHILD DEVELOP-
MENT PROGRAMS
(a) The Secretary, after consultation with other ap-
propriate officials of the Federal Government, shall within
sixteen months after enactment of this title report to the
Congress with respect to the extent to which facilities
owned or leased by Federal departments, agencies, and
independent authorities could be made available to public
and private nonprofit agencies and organizations, through
appropriate arrangements, for use as facilities for early
childhood education programs under this title during
times and periods when not utilized fully for their usual
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purposes, together with his/her recommendations (includ-
ing recommendations for changes in legislation) or pro-
posed actions for such use.
(b) The Secretary may require, as a condition to the
receipt of assistance under this title, that any prime spon-
sor under this title agree to conduct a review and provide
the Secretary with a report as to the extent to which facili-
ties owned or leased by such prime sponsor, or by other
agencies in the prime sponsorship area, could be made
available, through appropriate arrangements, for use as
facilities for early childhood education programs under
this title, during times and periods when not utilized for
their usual purposes, together with the prime sponsor’s
proposed actions for such use.
SEC. 109. PAYMENTS.
(a) In accordance with this section, the Secretary
shall pay from the applicable allocation or apportionment
under section 4 the Federal share of the costs of pro-
grams, services, and activities, in accordance with plans
or applications which have been approved as provided in
this part.
(b)(1) Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3)
of this subsection, the Secretary shall pay an amount not
in excess of 90 percent of the cost of carrying out pro-
grams, services, and activities under this part. The Sec-
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retary may, in accordance with such regulations prescribed
by the Secretary, approve assistance in excess of such per-
centage if the Secretary determines that such action is re-
quired to provide adequately for the early childhood edu-
cation needs of economically disadvantaged children.
(2) The Secretary shall pay an amount equal to 100
percent of the costs of providing early childhood education
programs for children of migrant agricultural workers and
their families under this title.
(3) The Secretary shall pay an amount equal to 100
percent of the costs of providing early childhood education
programs for children on Federal or State, Indian reserva-
tions under this title.
(4) The Secretary shall pay an amount equal to 100
percent of the costs of providing early childhood education
programs for Native Hawaiian children under this title.
(c) The nonFederal share of the costs of programs,
services, and activities assisted under this part may be
provided through public or private funds and may be in
the form of cash, goods, services, or facilities (or portions
thereof that area used for program purposes), reasonably
evaluated, and employee and employer contributions.
(d) Fees collected for services pursuant to section 105
(a)(8) shall be deemed financial assistance for purposes
of section 104 (a)(3).
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(e) If, with respect to any fiscal year, a prime sponsor
or project applicant provides nonFederal contributions for
any program, service, or activity exceeding its require-
ments, such excess may be applied toward meeting the re-
quirements for such contributions for the subsequent fiscal
year under this part.
(f) No State or locality shall reduce its expenditures
for early childhood education or child care programs by
reason of assistance under this part.
TITLE II—TRAINING, TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE, PLANNING, AND
EVALUATION
SEC. 201. PRESERVICE AND INSERVICE TRAINING.
The Secretary is authorized to make payments to
provide financial assistance to enable individuals employed
or preparing for employment in early childhood education
program assisted under this Act, including volunteers, to
participate in programs of preservice or inservice training
for professional and nonprofessional personnel, to be con-
ducted by any agency carrying out an early childhood edu-
cation program, or any institution of higher education, in-
cluding a community college, or by any combination
thereof.
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SEC. 202. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND PLANNING.
The Secretary shall, directly or through grant or con-
tract, make technical assistance available to prime spon-
sors and to project applicants participating or seeking to
participate in programs assisted under this title on a con-
tinuing basis to assist them in planning, developing, and
carrying out early childhood education programs.
SEC. 203. EVALUATION.
(a) The Secretary shall make an evaluation of Fed-
eral involvement in early childhood education activities
and services, which shall include—
(1) enumeration and description of all Federal
activities which affect early childhood education,
(2) analysis of expenditures of Federal funds
for such activities and services;
(3) determination of the effectiveness of such
activities and services;
(4) the extent to which preschool, minority
group, and economically disadvantaged children and
their parents have participated in programs under
this title; and
(5) such recommendations to Congress as the
Secretary may deem appropriate
(b) The results of the evaluation required by sub-
section (a) of this section shall be reported to Congress
not later than two years after enactment of this title.
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(c) The Secretary shall establish such procedures as
may be necessary to conduct an annual evaluation of Fed-
eral involvement in early childhood education programs,
and shall report the results of each such evaluation to
Congress.
(d) Prime sponsors and project applicants assisted
under this Act and departments and agencies of the Fed-
eral Government shall, upon request by the Secretary,
make available, consistent with other provisions of law,
such information as the Secretary determines is necessary
for purposes of making the evaluation required under sub-
section (c) of this section.
(e) The Secretary may enter into contracts with pub-
lic or private agencies, organizations, or individuals to
carry out the provisions of this section.
(f) The Secretary shall reserve for the purposes of
this section not less than 1 percent, and may reserve for
such purposes not more than 2 percent, of the amounts
available under paragraphs (2) and (3) of section 5(a) of
this Act for any fiscal year.
SEC. 204. FEDERAL STANDARDS FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD
EDUCATION SERVICES.
(a) The Secretary shall, after consultation with other
Federal agencies and with the Committee established pur-
suant to subsection (c) of this section, promulgate a com-
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mon set of program standards which shall be applicable
to all programs providing early childhood education serv-
ices with Federal assistance under this Act, to be known
as the Federal Standards for Early Childhood Education.
If the Secretary disapproves the Committee’s rec-
ommendations, the Secretary shall state the reasons there-
for.
(b) The Secretary shall, within sixty days after enact-
ment of this title, appoint a Special Committee on Federal
Standards for Early Childhood Education, which shall in-
cluded parents of children enrolled in early childhood edu-
cation programs, representatives of public and private
agencies administering early childhood education pro-
grams, and organization specialists, and others interested
in the development of children. Not less than one-half of
the membership of the Committee shall consist of parents
of children participating in programs conducted under
title I of this Act. Such Committee shall participate in the
development of Federal Standards for Early Childhood
Education and modifications thereof as provided in sub-
section (a).
SEC. 205. DEVELOPMENT OF UNIFORM MINIMUM CODE FOR
FACILITIES.
(a) The Secretary shall, within sixty days after enact-
ment of this bill appoint a special committee to develop
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a uniform minimum code for facilities, to be used in licens-
ing early childhood education facilities. Such standards
shall deal principally with those matters essential to the
health, safety, and physical comfort of the children and
the relationship of such matters to the Federal Standards
for Early Childhood Education.
(b) The special committee appointed under this sec-
tion shall include parents of children participating in child
development programs and representatives of State and
local licensing agencies, public health officials, fire preven-
tion officials, the construction industry and unions, public
and private agencies or organizations administering early
childhood education programs, and national agencies or
organizations interested in the development of children.
Not less than one-third of the membership of the commit-
tee shall consist of parents of children enrolled in such
programs.
(c) Within one year after its appointment, the special
committee shall complete a proposed uniform minimum
code for facilities and shall hold public hearings on the
proposed code prior to submitting its final recommenda-
tion to the Secretary for approval.
(d) After considering the recommendations submitted
by the special committee in accordance with subsection (c),
the Secretary shall promulgate standards which shall be
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applicable to all facilities receiving Federal financial as-
sistance under this Act or in which programs receiving
Federal financial assistance under this Act are operated.
If the Secretary disapproves the committee’s recommenda-
tions, the Secretary shall state the reasons therefor. The
Secretary shall also distribute such standards and urge
their adoption by States and local governments. The Sec-
retary may from time to time modify the uniform code
for facilities in accordance with procedures set forth in
this section.
TITLE 
III—MODEL 
FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT EARLY CHILD-
HOOD 
EDUCATION 
PRO-
GRAMS
SEC. 301. PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.
(a) The Secretary is authorized to provide financial
assistance for the purpose of establishing and operating
model early childhood education programs (including the
lease, rental, or construction of necessary facilities and the
acquisition of necessary equipment and supplies) for the
children of civilian employees of the Federal Government.
(b) Civilian employees of any Federal agency or group
of such agencies employing eighty working parents of
young children who desire to participate in a program eli-
gible for assistance under this part shall—
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(1) designate or create for such purpose an
agency committee, the membership of which shall be
broadly representative of the working parents inter-
ested in utilizing these services who are employed by
the agency or agencies; and
(2) submit to the Secretary a plan approved by
the official in charge of such agency or agencies,
which—
(A) provides that the early childhood edu-
cation program shall be administered under the
direction of the agency committee;
(B) provides that the program will meet
the Federal Standards for Early Childhood
Education approved pursuant to section 204
and the uniform minimum code for facilities ap-
proved pursuant to section 205.
(C) provides a means of determining prior-
ity of eligibility among parents wishing to use
the service program;
(D) provides for a scale of fees based upon
the parents’ financial status; and
(E) provides for competent management,
staffing, and facilities for such program.
(c) The Secretary shall not make payments under
this section unless the Secretary has received approval of
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the plan from the official in charge of the agency whose
employees will be served by the early childhood education
program.
SEC. 302. PAYMENTS.
(a) Not more than 80 percent of the total cost of the
early childhood education program under this part shall
be paid from Federal funds available under this title.
(b) The share of the total cost not available under
paragraph (a) may be provided through public or private
funds and may be in the form of cash, goods, services,
or facilities (or portions thereof that are used for program
purposes), reasonable evaluated, fees collected from par-
ents, and union and employer contributions.
(c) If, with respect to any fiscal year, a program
under this part provides contributions exceeding its re-
quirements under this section, such excess may be used
to meet the requirements of such contributions for the
subsequent fiscal year.
TITLE IV—RESEARCH AND
DEMONSTRATIONS
SEC. 401. DECLARATION OF PURPOSES.
The purposes of this part are to focus national re-
search efforts to attain a fuller understanding of the proc-
ess of early child development and the effects of organized
programs upon these processes; to develop effective pro-
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grams for research into child development; and to assure
that the result of research and development efforts are re-
flected in the conduct of programs affecting children
through the improvement and expansion of early childhood
education and related programs.
SEC. 402. RESEARCH AND DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS.
(a) In order to further the purposes of this part, the
Secretary shall carry out a program of research and dem-
onstration projects, which shall include but not be limited
to—
(1) research to determine the nature of child
development processes and the impact of various in-
fluences upon them, to develop techniques to meas-
ure and evaluate child development, to develop
standards to evaluate professional and paraprofes-
sional early childhood education personnel, to deter-
mine how early childhood development and education
and related programs conducted in either home or
institutional settings affect child development proc-
esses;
(2) research to test alternative methods of pro-
viding early childhood education and related services,
and to develop and test innovative approaches to
achieve maximum development of children and pro-
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grams for training adolescent youth in child develop-
ment;
(3) evaluation of research findings and the de-
velopment of these findings and the effective applica-
tion thereof; and
(4) dissemination and application of research
and development efforts and demonstration projects
to early childhood education and related programs,
using regional demonstration centers and advisory
services where feasible.
(b) In order to carry out the program provided for
in subsection (a), the Secretary is authorized to make
grants to or enter into contracts or other arrangements
with public or private nonprofit agencies (including other
Government agencies), organizations, and institutions,
and to enter into contracts with private agencies, organi-
zations, institutions, and individuals.
SEC. 403. COORDINATION OF RESEARCH.
(a) Funds available to any Federal department or
agency for the purposes stated in section 401 or the activi-
ties stated in section 402(a) shall be available for transfer,
with the approval of the head of the department or agency
involved, in whole or in part, to the Secretary for such
use as is consistent with the purposes for which such funds
were provided, and the funds so transferred shall be ex-
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pendable by the Secretary for the purpose for which the
transfer was made.
(b) The Secretary shall coordinate all early childhood
education research, training, and development efforts con-
ducted with the Federal Government and, to the extent
feasible, by other agencies, organizations, and individuals.
(c) Representatives from the National Institute for
Early Childhood Development, the Federal agencies ad-
ministering the Social Security Act and the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act, the Department of Health
and Human Services Administration for Children and
Families, the Department of Labor, and other appropriate
agencies, shall meet at least annually and at such more
frequent times as they may deem necessary, in order to
assure coordination of child development and early child-
hood education and related activities under their respec-
tive jurisdictions and to carry out the provisions of this
title so as to assure—
(1) maximum utilization of available resources
through the prevention of duplication of activities;
(2) a division of labor, insofar as is compatible
with the purposes of each of the agencies or authori-
ties specified in this paragraph, to assure maximum
progress toward the achievement of the purposes of
this title; and
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(3) recommendation of priorities for federally
funded research and development activities related
to the purposes of this title and those stated in sec-
tion 3.
TITLE V—GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 501. DEFINITIONS.
As used in this Act, the term—
(1) ‘‘children’’ means individuals who have not
attained the age of 8;
(2) ‘‘children with disabilities’’ any such child
as defined in section 602 of the Individuals With
Disabilities Education Act;
(3) ‘‘early childhood education programs’’
means programs provided on a full-day or part-day
basis which provide the educational, nutritional, so-
cial, medical, psychological, and physical services
needed for young children to attain their full poten-
tial;
(4) 
‘‘economically 
disadvantaged 
children’’
means any child of a family having an annual in-
come below the lower living standards budget (ad-
justed for regional and metropolitan, urban, and
rural differences, and family size), as determined an-
nually by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the De-
partment of Labor;
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(5) ‘‘institution of higher education’’ means any
such institution as defined in section 1201 of the
Higher Education Act of 1965.
(6) ‘‘limited English proficiency’’ means such
individual as defined in section 7003(a) of the Bilin-
gual Education Act.
(7) ‘‘local educational agency’’ means any such
agency as defined in section 1471 of the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act of 1965;
(8) ‘‘locality’’ means any city or other munici-
pality or any county or other political subdivision of
a State having general governmental powers, or any
combination thereof;
(9) ‘‘minority group’’ means persons who are
African-American, Native American, Alaskan Native,
Native Hawaiian, Hispanic American, Asian Amer-
ican, Pacific Island American and, as determined by
the Secretary, or children who are from environ-
ments in which a dominant language is other than
English.
(10) ‘‘parent’’ means any person who has day-
to-day parental responsibility for any child;
(11) ‘‘program’’ includes any program, service,
or activity, which is conducted full or part-time, day
or night, in early childhood education facilities, in
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schools, in neighborhood centers, or in homes, or
which provides early childhood education for children
whose parents are working or receiving education or
training;
(12) ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary of Edu-
cation;
(13) ‘‘single parent’’ means any person who has
sole day-to-day responsibility for any child;
(14) ‘‘State’’ means each of the fifty States, the
District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Is-
lands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands, and Palau (until the effective date of the
Compact of Free Association with the Government
of Palau); and
(15) ‘‘working mother’’ means any mother who
requires child care services under this Act in order
to undertake or continue full or part-time work,
training, or education outside the home.
SEC. 502. NUTRITION SERVICES.
In accordance with the purposes of this Act, the Sec-
retary of Education shall establish procedures to assure
that adequate nutrition services will be provided in early
childhood education programs under this Act. Such serv-
ices shall make use of the Special Food Services Program
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for children as defined under the National School Lunch
Act of 1946 and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to the
fullest extent appropriate and consistent with the provi-
sions of such Acts.
SEC. 503. SPECIAL PROVISIONS.
(a) The Secretary may make such grants, contracts,
or agreements, establish such procedures, policies, rules,
and regulations, and make such payments, in installments
and in advance or by way of reimbursement, or otherwise
allocate or expend funds made available under this title,
including necessary adjustments in payments on account
of overpayment or underpayment. Subject to the provi-
sions of section 504, the Secretary may also withhold
funds otherwise payable under this Act in order to recover
any amounts expended in the current or immediately prior
fiscal year in violation of any provision of this title or any
term or condition of assistance under this title.
(b) The Secretary shall prescribe regulations to as-
sure that programs under this title have adequate internal
administrative controls, accounting requirements, person-
nel standards, evaluation procedures, and other policies as
may be necessary to promote the effective use of funds.
(c) The Secretary shall not provide financial assist-
ance for any program under this Act unless the grant, con-
tract, or agreement with respect thereto specifically pro-
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vides that no person with responsibilities in the operation
of such program will discriminate with respect to any pro-
gram participant or any applicant for participation in such
program because of race, creed, color, national origin, sex,
sexual orientation, political affiliation, or beliefs.
(d) The Secretary shall not provide financial assist-
ance for any program under this Act which involves politi-
cal activities; and neither the program, the funds provided
therefor, nor personnel employed in the administration
thereof, shall be, in any way or to any extent, engaged
in the conduct of political activities.
(e) The Secretary shall not provide financial assist-
ance for any program under this Act unless the Secretary
determines that no funds will be used for, and no person
will be employed under the program on, the construction,
operation, or maintenance of so much of any facility as
is for use for sectarian instruction or as a place for reli-
gious worship.
(f) A child participating in a program assisted under
this Act shall not be required to undergo medical or psy-
chological examination (except to the extent related to
learning ability), or treatment, if the child’s parent or
guardian objects thereto.
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SEC. 504. WITHHOLDING OF GRANTS.
Whenever the Secretary, after reasonable notice and
opportunity for a hearing to any prime sponsor or project
applicant, finds—
(1) that there has been a failure to comply sub-
stantially with any requirement set forth in the plan
of any such prime sponsor approved under section
104;
(2) that there has been a failure to comply sub-
stantially with any requirement set forth in the ap-
plication of any such project applicant approved pur-
suant section 105; or
(3) that in the operation of any program or
project carried out by any such prime sponsor or
project applicant under this Act there is a failure to
comply substantially with any applicable provision of
this Act or regulation promulgated thereunder; the
Secretary shall notify such prime sponsor or project
applicant of his/her findings and that no further
payments may be made to such sponsor or applicant
under this Act until the Secretary is satisfied that
there is no longer any such failure to comply, or the
noncompliance will be promptly corrected. The Sec-
retary may authorize the continuation of payments
with respect to any project assisted under this Act
which is being carried out pursuant to such plan or
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application and which is not involved in the non-
compliance.
SEC. 505. PUBLIC INFORMATION.
(a) Applications for designation as prime sponsors,
comprehensive early childhood education plans, project ap-
plications, and all written material pertaining thereto shall
be made readily available without charge on the public by
the prime sponsor, the applicant, and the Secretary.
(b) The Secretary is directed to establish appropriate
procedures to ensure that no child shall be the subject of
any research or experimentation under this Act other than
routine testing and normal program evaluation unless the
parent or guardian of such child is informed of such re-
search or experimentation and is given an opportunity as
of right to except such child therefrom.
(c) Nothing in this Act shall be construed or applied
in such a manner as to infringe upon or usurp the moral
and legal rights and responsibilities of parents or guard-
ians with respect to the moral, mental, emotional, or phys-
ical development of their children. Nor shall any section
of this Act be construed or applied in such a manner as
to permit any invasion of privacy otherwise protected by
law, or to abridge any legal remedies for any such invasion
which is otherwise provided by law.
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