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42 U.S.C. § 9837a — Head Start transition and alignment with K–12 education
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**(a) In general** Each Head Start agency shall take steps to coordinate with the local educational agency serving the community involved and with schools in which children participating in a Head Start program operated by such agency will enroll following such program to promote continuity of services and effective transitions, including—
(1) developing and implementing a systematic procedure for transferring, with parental consent, Head Start program records for each participating child to the school in which such child will enroll;
(2) establishing ongoing channels of communication between Head Start staff and their counterparts in the schools (including teachers, social workers, local educational agency liaisons designated under section 722(g)(1)(J)(ii) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act ([42 U.S.C. 11432(g)(1)(J)(ii)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section11432/g/1/J/ii&num=0&edition=prelim)), and health staff) to facilitate coordination of programs;
(3) establishing ongoing communications between the Head Start agency and local educational agency for developing continuity of developmentally appropriate curricular objectives (which for the purpose of the Head Start program shall be aligned with the Head Start Child Outcomes Framework and, as appropriate, State early learning standards) and for shared expectations for children’s learning and development as the children transition to school;
(4) organizing and participating in joint training, including transition-related training for school staff and Head Start staff;
(5) establishing comprehensive transition policies and procedures that support children transitioning to school, including by engaging the local educational agency in the establishment of such polici
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**(a) In general** Each Head Start agency shall take steps to coordinate with the local educational agency serving the community involved and with schools in which children participating in a Head Start program operated by such agency will enroll following such program to promote continuity of services and effective transitions, including—
(1) developing and implementing a systematic procedure for transferring, with parental consent, Head Start program records for each participating child to the school in which such child will enroll;
(2) establishing ongoing channels of communication between Head Start staff and their counterparts in the schools (including teachers, social workers, local educational agency liaisons designated under section 722(g)(1)(J)(ii) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act ([42 U.S.C. 11432(g)(1)(J)(ii)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section11432/g/1/J/ii&num=0&edition=prelim)), and health staff) to facilitate coordination of programs;
(3) establishing ongoing communications between the Head Start agency and local educational agency for developing continuity of developmentally appropriate curricular objectives (which for the purpose of the Head Start program shall be aligned with the Head Start Child Outcomes Framework and, as appropriate, State early learning standards) and for shared expectations for children’s learning and development as the children transition to school;
(4) organizing and participating in joint training, including transition-related training for school staff and Head Start staff;
(5) establishing comprehensive transition policies and procedures that support children transitioning to school, including by engaging the local educational agency in the establishment of such policies;
(6) conducting outreach to parents and elementary school (such as kindergarten) teachers to discuss the educational, developmental, and other needs of individual children;
(7) helping parents of limited English proficient children understand—
(A) the instructional and other services provided by the school in which such child will enroll after participation in Head Start; and
(B) as appropriate, the information provided to parents of English learners under section 1112(e)(3) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of the 11 So in original. 1965 [[20 U.S.C. 6312(e)(3)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section6312/e/3&num=0&edition=prelim)];
(8) developing and implementing a family outreach and support program, in cooperation with entities carrying out parent and family engagement efforts under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 [[20 U.S.C. 6301](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section6301&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], and family outreach and support efforts under subtitle B of title VII of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act ([42 U.S.C. 11431](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section11431&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.), taking into consideration the language needs of parents of limited English proficient children;
(9) assisting families, administrators, and teachers in enhancing educational and developmental continuity and continuity of parental involvement in activities between Head Start services and elementary school classes;
(10) linking the services provided in such Head Start program with educational services, including services relating to language, literacy, and numeracy, provided by such local educational agency;
(11) helping parents (including grandparents and kinship caregivers, as appropriate) to understand the importance of parental involvement in a child’s academic success while teaching them strategies for maintaining parental involvement as their child moves from Head Start to elementary school;
(12) helping parents understand the instructional and other services provided by the school in which their child will enroll after participation in the Head Start program;
(13) developing and implementing a system to increase program participation of underserved populations of eligible children; and
(14) coordinating activities and collaborating to ensure that curricula used in the Head Start program are aligned with—
(A) the Head Start Child Outcomes Framework, as developed by the Secretary; and
(B) State early learning standards, as appropriate, with regard to cognitive, social, emotional, and physical competencies that children entering kindergarten are expected to demonstrate.
**(b) Construction** In this section, a reference to a Head Start agency, or its program, services, facility, or personnel, shall not be construed to be a reference to an Early Head Start agency, or its program, services, facility, or personnel.
**(c) Dissemination and technical assistance** The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, shall—
(1) disseminate to Head Start agencies information on effective policies and activities relating to the transition of children from Head Start programs to public schools; and
(2) provide technical assistance to such agencies to promote and assist such agencies to adopt and implement such effective policies and activities.
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The following is the policy of the Congress:
(1) Each State educational agency shall ensure that each child of a homeless individual and each homeless youth has equal access to the same free, appropriate public education, including a public preschool education, as provided to other children and youths.
(2) In any State where compulsory residency requirements or other requirements, in laws, regulations, practices, or policies, may act as a barrier to the identification of, or the enrollment, attendance, or success in school of, homeless children and youths, the State educational agency and local educational agencies in the State will review and undertake steps to revise such laws, regulations, practices, or policies to ensure that homeless children and youths are afforded the same free, appropriate public education as provided to other children and youths.
(3) Homelessness is not sufficient reason to separate students from the mainstream school environment.
(4) Homeless children and youths should have access to the education and other services that such children and youths need to ensure that such children and youths have an opportunity to meet the same challenging State academic standards to which all students are held.
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**(a) Agreements** In any case in which a negotiated rulemaking process is established under [section 6571(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section6571/b&num=0&edition=prelim), all published proposed regulations shall conform to agreements that result from the rulemaking described in [section 6571 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section6571&num=0&edition=prelim) unless the Secretary reopens the negotiated rulemaking process.
**(b) Records** The Secretary shall ensure that an accurate and reliable record of agreements reached during the negotiations process is maintained.
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**(a) Findings** The Congress finds that—
(1) the Nation faces an immediate and unprecedented crisis due to the lack of shelter for a growing number of individuals and families, including elderly persons, handicapped persons, families with children, Native Americans, and veterans;
(2) the problem of homelessness has become more severe and, in the absence of more effective efforts, is expected to become dramatically worse, endangering the lives and safety of the homeless;
(3) the causes of homelessness are many and complex, and homeless individuals have diverse needs;
(4) there is no single, simple solution to the problem of homelessness because of the different subpopulations of the homeless, the different causes of and reasons for homelessness, and the different needs of homeless individuals;
(5) due to the record increase in homelessness, States, units of local government, and private voluntary organizations have been unable to meet the basic human needs of all the homeless and, in the absence of greater Federal assistance, will be unable to protect the lives and safety of all the homeless in need of assistance; and
(6) the Federal Government has a clear responsibility and an existing capacity to fulfill a more effective and responsible role to meet the basic human needs and to engender respect for the human dignity of the homeless.
**(b) Purpose** It is the purpose of this chapter—
(1) to establish the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness;
(2) to use public resources and programs in a more coordinated manner to meet the critically urgent needs of the homeless of the Nation; and
(3) to provide funds for programs to assist the homeless, with special emphasis on elderly persons, handicapped persons, families with children, Native Americans, and ve
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Except as otherwise provided, in this subchapter:
(1) **Child** — The term “child” means any individual aged 3 through 21.
(2) **Community-based organization** — The term “community-based organization” means a private nonprofit organization of demonstrated effectiveness, Indian tribe, or tribally sanctioned educational authority, that is representative of a community or significant segments of a community and that provides educational or related services to individuals in the community. Such term includes a Native Hawaiian or Native American Pacific Islander native language educational organization.
(3) **Eligible entity** — The term “eligible entity” means—
(A) one or more local educational agencies; or
(B) one or more local educational agencies, in consortia or collaboration with an institution of higher education, educational service agency, community-based organization, or State educational agency.
(4) **English learner with a disability** — The term “English learner with a disability” means an English learner who is also a child with a disability, as that term is defined in [section 1401 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1401&num=0&edition=prelim).
(5) **Immigrant children and youth** — The term “immigrant children and youth” means individuals who—
(A) are aged 3 through 21;
(B) were not born in any State; and
(C) have not been attending one or more schools in any one or more States for more than 3 full academic years.
(6) **Indian tribe** — The term “Indian tribe” means any Indian tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community, including any Native village or Regional Corporation or Village Corporation as defined in or established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settleme
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The purpose of this subchapter is to encourage the development of special programs by which the residents of urban and rural low-income areas may, through self-help and mobilization of the community at large, with appropriate Federal assistance, improve the quality of their economic and social participation in community life in such a way as to contribute to the elimination of poverty and the establishment of permanent economic and social benefits.
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**(a) Standards**
(1) **Content of standards** — The Secretary shall modify, as necessary, program performance standards by regulation applicable to Head Start agencies and programs under this subchapter, including—
(A) performance standards with respect to services required to be provided, including health, parental involvement, nutritional, and social services, transition activities described in [section 9837a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9837a&num=0&edition=prelim), and other services;
(B) scientifically based and developmentally appropriate education performance standards related to school readiness that are based on the Head Start Child Outcomes Framework to ensure that the children participating in the program, at a minimum, develop and demonstrate—
(i) language knowledge and skills, including oral language and listening comprehension;
(ii) literacy knowledge and skills, including phonological awareness, print awareness and skills, and alphabetic knowledge;
(iii) mathematics knowledge and skills;
(iv) science knowledge and skills;
(v) cognitive abilities related to academic achievement and child development;
(vi) approaches to learning related to child development and early learning;
(vii) social and emotional development related to early learning, school success, and social problemsolving;
(viii) abilities in creative arts;
(ix) physical development; and
(x) in the case of limited English proficient children, progress toward acquisition of the English language while making meaningful progress in attaining the knowledge, skills, abilities, and development described in clauses (i) through (ix), including progress made through the use of culturally
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**(a) Authority** To be designated as a Head Start agency under this subchapter, an agency shall have authority under its charter or applicable law to receive and administer funds under this subchapter, funds and contributions from private or local public sources that may be used in support of a Head Start program, and funds under any Federal or State assistance program pursuant to which a public or private nonprofit or for-profit agency (as the case may be) organized in accordance with this subchapter, could act as grantee, contractor, or sponsor of projects appropriate for inclusion in a Head Start program. Such an agency shall also be empowered to transfer funds so received, and to delegate powers to other agencies, subject to the powers of its governing board and its overall program responsibilities. The power to transfer funds and delegate powers shall include the power to make transfers and delegations covering component projects in all cases where this will contribute to efficiency and effectiveness or otherwise further program objectives.
**(b) Family and community involvement; family services** To be so designated, a Head Start agency shall, at a minimum, do all the following to involve and serve families and communities:
(1) Provide for the regular and direct participation of parents and community residents in the implementation of the Head Start program, including decisions that influence the character of such program, consistent with paragraphs (2)(D) and (3)(C) of subsection (c).
(2) Seek the involvement of parents, community residents, and local business in the design and implementation of the program.
(3) Establish effective procedures—
(A) to facilitate and seek the involvement of parents of participating children in activities designed to help su
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**(a) In general**
(1) **Requirement; general purposes** — The Secretary shall carry out a continuing program of research, demonstration, and evaluation activities, in order to—
(A) foster continuous improvement in the quality of the Head Start programs under this subchapter and in their effectiveness in enabling participating children and their families to succeed in school and otherwise; and
(B) use the Head Start programs to develop, test, and disseminate new ideas based on existing scientifically valid research, for addressing the needs of low-income preschool children (including children with disabilities, homeless children, children who have been abused or neglected, and children in foster care) and their families and communities (including demonstrations of innovative non-center-based program models such as home-based and mobile programs), and otherwise to further the purposes of this subchapter.
(2) **Plan** — The Secretary shall develop, and periodically update, a plan governing the research, demonstration, and evaluation activities under this section.
**(b) Conduct of research, demonstration, and evaluation activities** The Secretary, in order to conduct research, demonstration, and evaluation activities under this section—
(1) may carry out such activities directly, or through grants to, or contracts or cooperative agreements with, public or private entities;
(2) shall, to the extent appropriate, undertake such activities in collaboration with other Federal agencies, and with non-Federal agencies, conducting similar activities;
(3) shall ensure that evaluation of activities in a specific program or project is conducted by persons not directly involved in the operation of such program or project;
(4) may require Head Start agencies to provide for
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TITLE 20—EDUCATION
§ 6301
Pub. L. 106–113, Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1501; Pub. L.
106–398, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654; Pub. L. 106–400, Oct.
30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1675; Pub. L. 106–554, Dec. 21, 2000, 114
Stat. 2763; Pub. L. 107–20, July 24, 2001, 115 Stat. 155, and
is classified to section 6301 et seq. of this title. Certain
titles and parts of titles of the Act are shown, herein,
however, as having been added by Pub. L. 107–110 with-
out reference to such intervening amendments because
of the extensive amendments, renumbering, and reorga-
nization of these provisions by Pub. L. 107–110.
SUBCHAPTER
I—IMPROVING
THE
ACA-
DEMIC
ACHIEVEMENT
OF
THE
DIS-
ADVANTAGED
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education
Act of 1965, comprising this subchapter, was originally
enacted as part of Pub. L. 89–10, Apr. 11, 1965, 79 Stat.
27, amended, and subsequently revised, restated, and
amended by other public laws. Title I is shown, herein,
as having been added by Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101,
Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1439, without reference to earlier
amendments because of the extensive revision of the ti-
tle’s provisions by Pub. L. 107–110. See Codification
note preceding this chapter.
§ 6301. Statement of purpose
The purpose of this subchapter is to provide
all children significant opportunity to receive a
fair, equitable, and high-quality education, and
to close educational achievement gaps.
(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1001, as added Pub. L.
107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1439;
amended Pub. L. 114–95, title I, § 1001, Dec. 10,
2015, 129 Stat. 1814.)
Editorial Notes
PRIOR PROVISIONS
A prior section 6301, Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1001, as
added Pub. L. 103–382, title I, § 101, Oct. 20,
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**(a) Local educational agency grants** There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out the activities described in part A—
(1) $15,012,317,605 for fiscal year 2017;
(2) $15,457,459,042 for fiscal year 2018;
(3) $15,897,371,442 for fiscal year 2019; and
(4) $16,182,344,591 for fiscal year 2020.
**(b) State assessments** There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out the activities described in part B, $378,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2020.
**(c) Education of migratory children** There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out the activities described in part C, $374,751,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2020.
**(d) Prevention and intervention programs for children and youth who are neglected, delinquent, or at-risk** There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out the activities described in part D, $47,614,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2020.
**(e) Federal activities** For the purpose of carrying out evaluation activities related to subchapter I under [section 7981 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section7981&num=0&edition=prelim), there are authorized to be appropriated $710,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2020.
**(f) Sense of Congress regarding adjustments to authorizations of appropriations provided in this chapter for future budget agreements** It is the sense of Congress that if legislation is enacted that revises the limits on discretionary spending established under [section 901(c) of title 2](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section901/c&num=0&edition=prelim), the levels of appropriations authorized throughout this chapter should be adjusted in a manner that is consistent with the adjustments in nonse
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