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ities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1419, 1431 et 
seq.); 
‘‘(F) the State official who oversees the 
State educational agency; 
‘‘(G) representatives from Head Start 
agencies located in the State, including migrant 
and seasonal Head Start programs and Indian 
Head Start programs; 
‘‘(H) representatives of local child care 
programs or organizations; and 
‘‘(I) a representative of the State agency 
responsible for health and mental health care; 
except that the chief executive officer of the State 
may designate an existing entity to serve as the 
Early Learning Council if such entity includes rep-
resentatives 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 50 
percent of the cost of carrying out this subsection; 
‘‘(3) direct the early learning council to improve 
the coordination and quality of early childhood serv-
ices within the State, including— 
‘‘(A) to increase coordination and collabo-
ration among State preschool, Head Start pro-
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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-
opment and training, community outreach, com-
munication, and better serving the needs of 
working families through provision of full-day 
and full-year early education services; 
‘‘(B) to work with State agencies respon-
sible for education, child care, and early inter-
vention to provide leadership and assistance to 
local Head Start programs, local education 
agencies, and State and locally funded pre-
school and child care programs to increase inte-
gration 
among 
early 
childhood 
programs 
through adoption of local memoranda of under-
standing described in subparagraph (A) and 
other means; 
‘‘(C) to work with State agencies respon-
sible for education, child care, and early inter-
vention to provide leadership and assistance to 
develop developmentally appropriate standards 
for children birth through the early elementary 
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grades to effect a smooth transition to and suc-
cess in the early elementary grades; 
‘‘(D) to develop or conduct periodic State-
wide needs assessments concerning early care 
and education programs for children from birth 
to school entry; 
‘‘(E) to work to identify and address bar-
riers to and opportunities for integration be-
tween entities carrying out Federal and State 
child development, child care, and early child-
hood education programs; 
‘‘(F) to develop recommendations regard-
ing means of establishing a unified data collec-
tion system for early care and education pro-
grams operating throughout the State; 
‘‘(G) to address coordination of early 
learning programs with health care (including 
mental and behavioral health care), welfare, 
family literacy and services for homeless chil-
dren; 
‘‘(H) to support a State system of early 
childhood education, and training and technical 
assistance that improves the quality of early 
learning programs and the capacity of such pro-
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