Head Start for Our Future Act

Bill: 118-hr-656
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Castro, Joaquin [D-TX-20]
Introduced: 2023-01-31
Policy area: Education
Latest action: action_date: 2023-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-01-31
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Head Start for Our Future Act</b></p> <p>This bill adds child development and early learning to the list of community services in which undergraduate, graduate, and professional students may participate under a federal work-study program.</p>

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 656 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 31, 2023 Mr. Castro of Texas (for himself, Mr. Moolenaar , Ms. Spanberger , and Mr. Cole ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to include child development and early learning as community services under the Federal work-study program.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Head Start for Our Future Act . 2. Child development and early learning community services Section 441(c)(1) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1087–51(c)(1) ) is amended by striking literacy training and inserting child development and early learning (including Head Start programs and Early Head Start programs carried out under the Head Start Act ( 42 U.S.C. 9831 et seq. )), literacy training .