(14) by inserting after paragraph (24), as so re-
designated, the following: 
‘‘(25) The term ‘State educational agency’ has 
the meaning given such term in the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965. 
‘‘(26) The term ‘unresolved area of noncompli-
ance’ means a failure to correct a noncompliance item 
within 90 days, or within such additional time (if 
any) authorized by the Secretary, after receiving from 
the Secretary notice of such noncompliance item.’’. 
SEC. 4. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR HEAD START PRO-
GRAMS. 
Section 638 of the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9833) 
is amended by inserting ‘‘for a period of 5 years’’ after 
‘‘provide financial assistance to such agency’’. 
SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION. 
Section 639 of the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9834) 
is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 639. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be appro-
priated for carrying out the provisions of this subchapter 
$6,899,000,000 for the fiscal year 2006 and such sums as 
may be necessary for the fiscal years 2007 through 2011. 
‘‘(b) SPECIFIC PROGRAMS.—From the amount appro-
priated under subsection (a), the Secretary shall make
available not more than $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2006, 
and such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 2007 
through 2011 to carry out such other research, demonstra-
tion, and evaluation activities, including longitudinal stud-
ies, under section 649, of which not more than $7,000,000 
for each of the fiscal years 2006 through 2011 to carry out 
impact studies under section 649(g).’’. 
SEC. 6. ALLOTMENT OF FUNDS; LIMITATIONS ON ASSIST-
ANCE. 
(a) ALLOTMENTS.—Section 640(a) of the Head Start 
Act (42 U.S.C. 9835(a)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (2)—
(A) by amending subparagraph (A) to read 
as follows:
‘‘(A) Indian Head Start programs, services 
for children with disabilities, and migrant and 
seasonal Head Start programs, except that—
‘‘(i) there shall be made available for 
each fiscal year for use by Indian Head 
Start programs and by migrant and sea-
sonal Head Start programs, on a nation-
wide basis, not less than the amount that 
was obligated for use by Indian Head Start 
programs and by migrant and seasonal 
Head Start programs for fiscal year 2005;
‘‘(ii) migrant and seasonal Head Start 
programs shall receive at least 5 percent of 
the amount appropriated for such fiscal 
year until such time as the Secretary can 
make funding decisions to ensure access to 
funding for eligible children of migrant and 
seasonal farmworkers is comparable to ac-
cess to funding for other eligible children 
based on the data collected and reported 
pursuant to section 648(j), except that no 
future reduction in funding shall result in 
the termination of Head Start services pro-
vided to any eligible child 3 years of age or 
older who is participating in any such pro-
gram on the date a reduction in funding oc-
curs, and shall, to the extent possible, con-
tinue participation for children less than 3 
years of age receiving services prior to such 
reduction in funding; and 
‘‘(iii) Indian Head Start programs 
shall receive at least 3.5 percent of the 
amount appropriated for such fiscal year 
until such time as the Secretary can make 
funding decisions to ensure access to fund-
ing for eligible Indian children is com-
parable to access to funding for other eligi-
ble children;’’; and 
(B) by amending subparagraph (B) to read 
as follows: 
‘‘(B) payments, subject to paragraph (7) to 
Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands of 
the United States, and subject to the requirements of 
section 105(f)(1)(B)(ix) of Public Law 108–188 to 
Palau;’’; 
(C) by amending (C) to read as follows: 
‘‘(C) training and technical assistance activities 
to foster program quality and management improve-
ment as described in section 648, in an amount for 
each fiscal year which is equal to 2 percent of the 
amount appropriated for such fiscal year, of which—
‘‘(i) not less than 50 percent shall be made 
available to local Head Start agencies to make 
program improvements identified by such agen-
cies and comply with the standards described in 
section 641A(a)(1), of which not less than 50 
percent shall be used to comply with the stand-
ards described in section 641A(a)(1)(B) and for 
the uses described in clauses (iii), (iv), and (vii) 
of subsection (a)(3)(B);