2002 US Code
Title 20 - EDUCATION
CHAPTER 75 - EARLY LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
Sec. 9407 - Uses of funds
View MetadataPublication Title | United States Code, 2000 Edition, Supplement 2, Title 20 - EDUCATION |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 20 - EDUCATION CHAPTER 75 - EARLY LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES Sec. 9407 - Uses of funds |
Contains | section 9407 |
Date | 2002 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 6, 2003 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | Pub. L. 106-554, §1(a)(1) [title VIII, §808], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A-83. |
Statutes at Large Reference | 114 Stat. 2763 |
Public Law Reference | Public Law 106-554 |
§9407. Uses of funds (a) In general
Subject to section 9409 of this title, grant funds under this chapter shall be used to pay for developing, operating, or enhancing voluntary early learning programs that are likely to produce sustained gains in early learning.
(b) Limited usesSubject to section 9409 of this title, Lead State Agencies and Local Councils shall ensure that funds made available under this chapter to the agencies and Local Councils are used for three or more of the following activities:
(1) Helping parents, caregivers, child care providers, and educators increase their capacity to facilitate the development of cognitive, language comprehension, expressive language, social-emotional, and motor skills, and promote learning readiness.
(2) Promoting effective parenting.
(3) Enhancing early childhood literacy.
(4) Developing linkages among early learning programs within a community and between early learning programs and health care services for young children.
(5) Increasing access to early learning opportunities for young children with special needs, including developmental delays, by facilitating coordination with other programs serving such young children.
(6) Increasing access to existing early learning programs by expanding the days or times that the young children are served, by expanding the number of young children served, or by improving the affordability of the programs for low-income families.
(7) Improving the quality of early learning programs through professional development and training activities, increased compensation, and recruitment and retention incentives, for early learning providers.
(8) Removing ancillary barriers to early learning, including transportation difficulties and absence of programs during nontraditional work times.
(c) RequirementsEach Lead State Agency designated under section 9409(c) of this title and Local Councils receiving a grant under this chapter shall ensure—
(1) that Local Councils described in section 9413 of this title work with local educational agencies to identify cognitive, social, emotional, and motor developmental abilities which are necessary to support children's readiness for school;
(2) that the programs, services, and activities assisted under this chapter will represent developmentally appropriate steps toward the acquisition of those abilities; and
(3) that the programs, services, and activities assisted under this chapter collectively provide benefits for children cared for in their own homes as well as children placed in the care of others.
(d) Sliding scale paymentsStates and Local Councils receiving assistance under this chapter shall ensure that programs, services, and activities assisted under this chapter which customarily require a payment for such programs, services, or activities, adjust the cost of such programs, services, and activities provided to the individual or the individual's child based on the individual's ability to pay.
(Pub. L. 106–554, §1(a)(1) [title VIII, §808], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A–83.)
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