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‘‘(i) The local educational agency, 
local council, or other appropriate entity is 
unable or unwilling to enter into such a 
memorandum despite reasonable efforts on 
the part of the Head Start agency. 
‘‘(ii) The Head Start agency has not 
engaged in reasonable efforts to success-
fully negotiate and enter into a memo-
randum of understanding pursuant to 
paragraph (1). 
‘‘(iii) There is an absence of publicly 
funded prekindergarten in the service area 
of the Head Start agency. 
‘‘(B) If the Secretary determines the Head 
Start agency is not making reasonable efforts 
to enter into a memorandum of understanding 
pursuant to paragraph (1), the Head Start 
agency shall be found to have a deficiency and 
shall be considered by the Secretary in the 
same manner as other deficiency findings. 
‘‘(C) If the Secretary concludes that the 
local educational agency, local council, or other 
appropriate entity is not making reasonable ef-
forts to reach such a memorandum of under-
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standing, the Head Start agency shall not be 
found out of compliance with paragraph (1). 
‘‘(4) REVISION OF MEMORANDA.—Each memo-
randum of understanding shall be revised and re-
newed annually by the parties to such memorandum, 
in alignment with the beginning of the school year. 
‘‘(5) ABSENCE OF PREKINDERGARTEN.—In the 
absence of publicly funded prekindergarten in the 
service area of a Head Start agency, the Head Start 
agency shall submit notice to the Secretary and the 
chief executive officer of the State, and shall work 
with the State Early Learning Council and the State 
Director of Head Start Collaboration to improve co-
ordination in their service area. 
‘‘(b) STATEWIDE INTEGRATION.—From the amounts 
reserved under section 640(a)(2)(C)(ii), the Secretary 
shall award an early learning collaboration grant to each 
State for the purposes of supporting a State Early Learn-
ing Council responsible for advancing the development of 
a coordinated early childhood services delivery system in 
the State. A State that receives a grant under this sub-
paragraph shall— 
‘‘(1) establish a State Early Learning Council, 
which shall include the State Director of Head Start 
Collaboration, representatives from the State pre-
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school programs, representatives of local educational 
agencies, the State official who oversees child care 
programs, the State official who oversees section 619 
and part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Edu-
cation Act (20 U.S.C. 1419, 1431 et seq.), the State 
official who oversees the State educational agency, 
and representatives from Head Start agencies lo-
cated in the State, including migrant and seasonal 
Head Start programs and Indian Head Start pro-
grams. The chief executive officer of the State may 
designate an existing entity to serve as the Early 
Learning Council if such entity includes representa-
tives described in this paragraph; 
‘‘(2) ensure that allotted funds distributed to a 
State for a fiscal year to carry out this subsection 
may be used by the State to pay not more than 30 
percent of the cost of carrying out this subsection; 
‘‘(3) direct the Early Learning Council— 
‘‘(A) to increase coordination and collabo-
ration among State preschool, Head Start pro-
grams, child care programs, early childhood 
special education, and other early childhood 
programs, including in the areas of outcomes 
and standards, technical assistance, coordina-
tion of services, cross-sector professional devel-