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 
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) 
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-
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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)— 
(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 
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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 
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; 
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‘‘(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-
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) MIGRANT AND SEASONAL HEAD START PRO-
GRAMS.—Section 640(l) of the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 
9835(l)) is amended— 
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(1) by amending paragraph (3) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(3) In carrying out this subchapter, the Secretary 
shall continue the administrative arrangement at the na-
tional level for meeting the needs of Indian children and 
children of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and shall 
ensure that appropriate funding is provided to meet such 
needs, including training and technical assistance and the 
appointment of a national migrant and seasonal Head 
Start collaboration director and a national Indian Head 
Start collaboration director.’’, and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(4)(A) For the purposes of paragraph (3), the Sec-
retary shall conduct an annual consultation in each af-
fected Head Start region, with tribal governments oper-
ating Head Start programs and Early Head Start pro-
grams. 
‘‘(B) The consultations shall be for the purpose of 
better meeting the needs of Indian children and children 
of Alaskan Natives, and their families, in accordance with 
subsections (a), (b), and (c) of section 641, taking into 
consideration funding allocations, distribution formulas, 
and other issues affecting the delivery of Head Start serv-
ices in their geographic locations. 
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