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‘‘(1) Education and early childhood develop-
ment. 
‘‘(2) Child health, nutrition, and safety. 
‘‘(3) Family and community partnerships. 
‘‘(4) Other areas that impact the quality or 
overall effectiveness of Head Start programs. 
‘‘(h) The Secretary shall develop and implement an 
outreach program to train and recruit African-American 
and Latino-American men to become Head Start teachers 
in order to increase the provision of quality services and 
instruction to children with diverse backgrounds. 
‘‘(i) Funds under this subchapter used for training 
shall be used for needs identified annually by a grant ap-
plicant or delegate agency in their program improvement 
plan, except that funds shall not be used for long-distance 
travel expenses for training activities available locally or 
regionally or for training activities substantially similar to 
locally or regionally available training activities. 
‘‘(j)(1) The Secretary shall work in collaboration with 
the Head Start agencies that carry out migrant and sea-
sonal Head Start programs and Indian Head Start pro-
grams, State Directors of Head Start Collaboration, the 
Indian Head Start Collaboration Director, the migrant 
and seasonal Head Start collatoration director, and other 
appropriate entities, including tribal governments—
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‘‘(A) to accurately determine the number of 
children nationwide who are eligible to participate in 
migrant and seasonal Head Start programs and in 
Indian Head Start programs each year; 
‘‘(B) to document how many of these children 
are receiving Head Start services each year; and 
‘‘(C) to the extent practicable, to ensure that 
access to migrant and seasonal Head Start pro-
grams and in Indian Head Start programs for eligi-
ble children is comparable to access to other Head 
Start programs for other eligible children; 
‘‘(2) In carrying out paragraph (1)(A), the Secretary 
shall consult with the Secretary of Education about the 
Department of Education’s systems for collecting and re-
porting data about, and maintaining records on, students 
from migrant and seasonal farmworker families and 
American Indian and Alaska Native students. 
‘‘(3) Not later than 9 months after the effective date 
of this subsection, the Secretary shall publish in the Fed-
eral Register a notice of how the Secretary plans to carry 
out paragraph (1) and shall provide a period for public 
comment. To the extent practicable, the Secretary shall 
consider comments received before submitting a report to 
the Congress.
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‘‘(4) Not later than 1 year after the effective date 
of this subsection, the Secretary shall submit a report to 
the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on Health, 
Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate, detailing 
how the Department of Health and Human Services plans 
to carry out paragraph (1). 
‘‘(5) The Secretary shall submit annually a report to 
the Congress detailing the number of children of migrant 
and seasonal farmworkers, American Indian and Alaska 
Native children who are eligible to participate in Head 
Start programs and the number of such children who are 
enrolled in Head Start programs. 
‘‘(6) The Secretary shall take appropriate action, con-
sistent with section 444 of the General Education Provi-
sions Act, to ensure the protection of the confidentiality 
of any personally identifiable data, information, and 
records collected or maintained by the Secretary, by Head 
Start agencies that carry out migrant and seasonal Head 
Start programs and in Indian Head Start programs, by 
State Directors of Head Start Collaboration, by the Mi-
grant and Seasonal Farmworker Collaboration Project Di-
rector, by the Indian Head Start Collaboration Project Di-
rector, and by other appropriate entities pursuant to this 
subsection.