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42 U.S.C. § 9840a — Early Head Start programs
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**(a) In general** The Secretary shall make grants to entities (referred to in this subchapter as “Early Head Start agencies”) in accordance with this section for programs (referred to in this subchapter as “Early Head Start programs”) providing family-centered services for low-income families with very young children designed to promote the development of the children, and to enable their parents to fulfill their roles as parents and to move toward self-sufficiency.
**(b) Scope and design of programs** In carrying out a program described in subsection (a), an entity receiving assistance under this section shall—
(1) provide, either directly or through referral, early, continuous, intensive, and comprehensive child development and family support services that will enhance the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development of participating children;
(2) ensure that the level of services provided to families responds to their needs and circumstances;
(3) promote positive parent-child interactions;
(4) provide services to parents to support their role as parents (including parenting skills training and training in basic child development) and services to help the families move toward self-sufficiency (including educational and employment services, as appropriate);
(5) coordinate services with services provided by programs in the State (including home-based services) and programs in the community (including programs for infants and toddlers with disabilities and programs for homeless infants and toddlers) to ensure a comprehensive array of services (such as health and mental health services and family support services);
(6) ensure that children with documented behavioral problems, including problems involving behavior related to prior or existing trauma, r
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**(a) In general** The Secretary shall make grants to entities (referred to in this subchapter as “Early Head Start agencies”) in accordance with this section for programs (referred to in this subchapter as “Early Head Start programs”) providing family-centered services for low-income families with very young children designed to promote the development of the children, and to enable their parents to fulfill their roles as parents and to move toward self-sufficiency.
**(b) Scope and design of programs** In carrying out a program described in subsection (a), an entity receiving assistance under this section shall—
(1) provide, either directly or through referral, early, continuous, intensive, and comprehensive child development and family support services that will enhance the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development of participating children;
(2) ensure that the level of services provided to families responds to their needs and circumstances;
(3) promote positive parent-child interactions;
(4) provide services to parents to support their role as parents (including parenting skills training and training in basic child development) and services to help the families move toward self-sufficiency (including educational and employment services, as appropriate);
(5) coordinate services with services provided by programs in the State (including home-based services) and programs in the community (including programs for infants and toddlers with disabilities and programs for homeless infants and toddlers) to ensure a comprehensive array of services (such as health and mental health services and family support services);
(6) ensure that children with documented behavioral problems, including problems involving behavior related to prior or existing trauma, receive appropriate screening and referral;
(7) ensure formal linkages with local Head Start programs in order to provide for continuity of services for children and families;
(8) develop and implement a systematic procedure for transitioning children and parents from an Early Head Start program to a Head Start program or other local early childhood education and development program;
(9) establish channels of communication between staff of the Early Head Start program, and staff of a Head Start program or other local providers of early childhood education and development programs, to facilitate the coordination of programs;
(10) in the case of a Head Start agency that operates a program and that also provides Head Start services through the age of mandatory school attendance, ensure that children and families participating in the program receive such services through such age;
(11) ensure formal linkages with providers of early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ([20 U.S.C. 1400](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1400&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.), with the State interagency coordinating council, as established in part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ([20 U.S.C. 1431](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1431&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.), and with the agency responsible for administering [section 5106a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section5106a&num=0&edition=prelim);
(12) meet such other requirements concerning design and operation of the program described in subsection (a) as the Secretary may establish.
**(c) Persons eligible to participate** Persons who may participate in programs described in subsection (a) include—
(1) pregnant women; and
(2) families with children under age 3;
who meet the eligibility criteria specified in [section 9840(a)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9840/a/1&num=0&edition=prelim), including the criteria specified in [section 9840(a)(1)(B)(ii) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9840/a/1/B/ii&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(d) Eligible service providers** To be eligible to receive assistance under this section, an entity shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require. Entities that may apply to carry out activities under this section include—
(1) entities operating Head Start programs under this subchapter;
(2) entities operating Indian Head Start programs or migrant or seasonal Head Start programs; and
(3) other public entities, and nonprofit or for-profit private entities, including community-based and faith-based organizations, capable of providing child and family services that meet the standards for participation in programs under this subchapter and meet such other appropriate requirements relating to the activities under this section as the Secretary may establish.
**(e) Selection of grant recipients** The Secretary shall award grants under this section on a competitive basis to applicants meeting the criteria specified in subsection (d) (giving priority to entities with a record of providing early, continuous, and comprehensive childhood development and family services).
**(f) Distribution** In awarding grants to eligible applicants under this section, the Secretary shall—
(1) ensure an equitable national geographic distribution of the grants; and
(2) award grants to applicants proposing to serve communities in rural areas and to applicants proposing to serve communities in urban areas.
**(g) Monitoring, training, technical assistance, and evaluation**
(1) **Requirement** — In order to ensure the successful operation of programs assisted under this section, the Secretary shall use funds made available under [section 9835(a)(2)(E) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9835/a/2/E&num=0&edition=prelim) to monitor the operation of such programs, and funds made available under [section 9835(a)(2)(C)(i)(I) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9835/a/2/C/i/I&num=0&edition=prelim) to provide training and technical assistance tailored to the particular needs of such programs, consistent with [section 9835(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9835/c&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) **Training and technical assistance**
(A) *Activities* — Of the portion set aside under [section 9835(a)(2)(C)(i)(I) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9835/a/2/C/i/I&num=0&edition=prelim)—
(i) not less than 50 percent shall be made available to Early Head Start agencies to use directly, which may include, at their discretion, the establishment of local or regional agreements with community experts, institutions of higher education, or private consultants, for training and technical assistance activities in order to make program improvements identified by such agencies;
(ii) not less than 25 percent shall be available to the Secretary to support a State-based training and technical assistance system, or a national system, described in [section 9843(e) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9843/e&num=0&edition=prelim), including infant and toddler specialists, to support Early Head Start agencies, consistent with subparagraph (B); and
(iii) the remainder of such amount shall be made available to the Secretary to assist Early Head Start agencies in meeting and exceeding the standards described in [section 9836a(a)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9836a/a/1&num=0&edition=prelim) (directly, or through grants, contracts, or other agreements or arrangements with an entity with demonstrated expertise relating to infants, toddlers, and families) by—
(I) providing ongoing training and technical assistance to Early Head Start agencies, including developing training and technical assistance materials and resources to support program development and improvement and best practices in providing services to children and families served by Early Head Start programs;
(II) supporting a national network of infant and toddler specialists designed to improve the quality of Early Head Start programs;
(III) providing ongoing training and technical assistance on Early Head Start program development and improvement for regional staff charged with monitoring and overseeing the administration of the program carried out under this section; and
(IV) if funds remain after the activities described in subclauses (I), (II), and (III) are carried out, carry out 1 or more of the following activities:
(aa) Providing support and program planning and implementation assistance for new Early Head Start agencies, including for agencies who want to use funds as described in [section 9840(a)(5) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9840/a/5&num=0&edition=prelim) to serve infants and toddlers.
(bb) Creating special training and technical assistance initiatives targeted to serving high-risk populations, such as children in the child welfare system and homeless children.
(cc) Providing professional development designed to increase program participation for underserved populations of eligible children.
(B) *Contracts* — For the purposes of supporting a State-based system, as described in subparagraph (A)(ii), that will meet the needs of Early Head Start agencies and provide high-quality, sustained, and intensive training and technical assistance on programming for infants and toddlers to Early Head Start agencies, and in order to help such agencies meet or exceed the standards described in [section 9836a(a)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9836a/a/1&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary shall—
(i) use funds reserved under subparagraph (A)(ii) in combination with funds reserved under [section 9835(a)(2)(C)(i)(II)(bb) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9835/a/2/C/i/II/bb&num=0&edition=prelim) to ensure the contracts described in [section 9843(e)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9843/e/1&num=0&edition=prelim) provide for a minimum of 1 full-time specialist with demonstrated expertise in the development of infants and toddlers; and
(ii) ensure that such contracts and the services provided in the contracts are integrated with and augment the contracts awarded and services provided under [section 9843(e) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9843/e&num=0&edition=prelim);
**(h) Center-based staff** The Secretary shall—
(1) ensure that, not later than September 30, 2010, all teachers providing direct services to children and families participating in Early Head Start programs located in Early Head Start centers, have a minimum of a child development associate credential, and have been trained (or have equivalent coursework) in early childhood development; and
(2) establish staff qualification goals to ensure that not later than September 30, 2012, all such teachers have been trained (or have equivalent coursework) in early childhood development with a focus on infant and toddler development.
**(i) Staff qualifications and development**
(1) **Home visitor staff standards** — In order to further enhance the quality of home visiting services provided to families of children participating in home-based, center-based, or combination program options under this subchapter, the Secretary shall establish standards for training, qualifications, and the conduct of home visits for home visitor staff in Early Head Start programs.
(2) **Contents of standards** — The standards for training, qualifications, and the conduct of home visits shall include content related to—
(A) structured child-focused home visiting that promotes parents’ ability to support the child’s cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development;
(B) effective strengths-based parent education, including methods to encourage parents as their child’s first teachers;
(C) early childhood development with respect to children from birth through age 3;
(D) methods to help parents promote emergent literacy in their children from birth through age 3, including use of research-based strategies to support the development of literacy and language skills for children who are limited English proficient;
(E) ascertaining what health and developmental services the family receives and working with providers of these services to eliminate gaps in service by offering annual health, vision, hearing, and developmental screening for children from birth to entry into kindergarten, when needed;
(F) strategies for helping families coping with crisis; and
(G) the relationship of health and well-being of pregnant women to prenatal and early child development.
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**(a) Findings** Congress finds that there is an urgent and substantial need—
(1) to enhance the development of infants and toddlers with disabilities, to minimize their potential for developmental delay, and to recognize the significant brain development that occurs during a child’s first 3 years of life;
(2) to reduce the educational costs to our society, including our Nation’s schools, by minimizing the need for special education and related services after infants and toddlers with disabilities reach school age;
(3) to maximize the potential for individuals with disabilities to live independently in society;
(4) to enhance the capacity of families to meet the special needs of their infants and toddlers with disabilities; and
(5) to enhance the capacity of State and local agencies and service providers to identify, evaluate, and meet the needs of all children, particularly minority, low-income, inner city, and rural children, and infants and toddlers in foster care.
**(b) Policy** It is the policy of the United States to provide financial assistance to States—
(1) to develop and implement a statewide, comprehensive, coordinated, multidisciplinary, interagency system that provides early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families;
(2) to facilitate the coordination of payment for early intervention services from Federal, State, local, and private sources (including public and private insurance coverage);
(3) to enhance State capacity to provide quality early intervention services and expand and improve existing early intervention services being provided to infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families; and
(4) to encourage States to expand opportunities for children under 3 years of age who would be at risk
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**(a) Development and operation grants** The Secretary shall make grants to the States, from allotments made under subsection (f) for each State that applies for a grant under this section, for purposes of assisting the States in improving the child protective services system of each such State in—
(1) the intake, assessment, screening, and investigation of reports of child abuse or neglect;
(2)
(A) creating and improving the use of multidisciplinary teams and interagency, intra-agency, interstate, and intrastate protocols to enhance investigations; and
(B) improving legal preparation and representation, including—
(i) procedures for appealing and responding to appeals of substantiated reports of child abuse or neglect; and
(ii) provisions for the appointment of an individual appointed to represent a child in judicial proceedings;
(3) case management, including ongoing case monitoring, and delivery of services and treatment provided to children and their families;
(4) enhancing the general child protective system by developing, improving, and implementing risk and safety assessment tools and protocols, including the use of differential response;
(5) developing and updating systems of technology that support the program and track reports of child abuse and neglect from intake through final disposition and allow interstate and intrastate information exchange;
(6) developing, strengthening, and facilitating training including—
(A) training regarding research-based strategies, including the use of differential response, to promote collaboration with the families;
(B) training regarding the legal duties of such individuals;
(C) personal safety training for case workers; and
(D) training in early childhood, child, and adolescent development;
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It is the purpose of this subchapter to promote the school readiness of low-income children by enhancing their cognitive, social, and emotional development—
(1) in a learning environment that supports children’s growth in language, literacy, mathematics, science, social and emotional functioning, creative arts, physical skills, and approaches to learning; and
(2) through the provision to low-income children and their families of health, educational, nutritional, social, and other services that are determined, based on family needs assessments, to be necessary.
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For purposes of this subchapter:
(1) The term “child with a disability” means—
(A) a child with a disability, as defined in [section 1401(3) of title 20](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1401/3&num=0&edition=prelim); and
(B) an infant or toddler with a disability, as defined in [section 1432(5) of title 20](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1432/5&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) The term “deficiency” means—
(A) a systemic or substantial material failure of an agency in an area of performance that the Secretary determines involves—
(i) a threat to the health, safety, or civil rights of children or staff;
(ii) a denial to parents of the exercise of their full roles and responsibilities related to program operations;
(iii) a failure to comply with standards related to early childhood development and health services, family and community partnerships, or program design and management;
(iv) the misuse of funds received under this subchapter;
(v) loss of legal status (as determined by the Secretary) or financial viability, loss of permits, debarment from receiving Federal grants or contracts, or the improper use of Federal funds; or
(vi) failure to meet any other Federal or State requirement that the agency has shown an unwillingness or inability to correct, after notice from the Secretary, within the period specified;
(B) systemic or material failure of the governing body of an agency to fully exercise its legal and fiduciary responsibilities; or
(C) an unresolved area of noncompliance.
(3) The term “delegate agency” means a public, private nonprofit (including a community-based organization, as defined in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondar
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**(a) Short title** This chapter may be cited as the “Individuals with Disabilities Education Act”.
**(b) Omitted**
**(c) Findings** Congress finds the following:
(1) Disability is a natural part of the human experience and in no way diminishes the right of individuals to participate in or contribute to society. Improving educational results for children with disabilities is an essential element of our national policy of ensuring equality of opportunity, full participation, independent living, and economic self-sufficiency for individuals with disabilities.
(2) Before the date of enactment of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (Public Law 94–142), the educational needs of millions of children with disabilities were not being fully met because—
(A) the children did not receive appropriate educational services;
(B) the children were excluded entirely from the public school system and from being educated with their peers;
(C) undiagnosed disabilities prevented the children from having a successful educational experience; or
(D) a lack of adequate resources within the public school system forced families to find services outside the public school system.
(3) Since the enactment and implementation of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, this chapter has been successful in ensuring children with disabilities and the families of such children access to a free appropriate public education and in improving educational results for children with disabilities.
(4) However, the implementation of this chapter has been impeded by low expectations, and an insufficient focus on applying replicable research on proven methods of teaching and learning for children with disabilities.
(5) Almost 30 years of research and experience has
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**(a) Program authorized**
(1) **Loan forgiveness authorized** — The Secretary shall forgive, in accordance with this section, the qualified loan amount described in subsection (c) of the student loan obligation of a borrower who—
(A) is employed full-time in an area of national need, as described in subsection (b); and
(B) is not in default on a loan for which the borrower seeks forgiveness.
(2) **Method of loan forgiveness** — To provide loan forgiveness under paragraph (1), the Secretary is authorized to carry out a program—
(A) through the holder of the loan, to assume the obligation to repay a qualified loan amount for a loan made, insured, or guaranteed under this part (other than an excepted PLUS loan or an excepted consolidation loan (as such terms are defined in [section 1098e(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1098e/a&num=0&edition=prelim))); and
(B) to cancel a qualified loan amount for a loan made under part D of this subchapter (other than an excepted PLUS loan or an excepted consolidation loan).
(3) **Regulations** — The Secretary is authorized to issue such regulations as may be necessary to carry out this section.
**(b) Areas of national need** For purposes of this section, an individual is employed in an area of national need if the individual meets the requirements of one of the following:
(1) **Early childhood educators** — The individual is employed full-time as an early childhood educator.
(2) **Nurses** — The individual is employed full-time—
(A) as a nurse in a clinical setting; or
(B) as a member of the nursing faculty at an accredited school of nursing (as those terms are defined in [section 296 of title 42](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-pr
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**(a) Application** A State desiring to receive a grant under [section 1433 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1433&num=0&edition=prelim) shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time and in such manner as the Secretary may reasonably require. The application shall contain—
(1) a designation of the lead agency in the State that will be responsible for the administration of funds provided under [section 1433 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1433&num=0&edition=prelim);
(2) a certification to the Secretary that the arrangements to establish financial responsibility for services provided under this subchapter pursuant to [section 1440(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1440/b&num=0&edition=prelim) are current as of the date of submission of the certification;
(3) information demonstrating eligibility of the State under [section 1434 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1434&num=0&edition=prelim), including—
(A) information demonstrating to the Secretary’s satisfaction that the State has in effect the statewide system required by [section 1433 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1433&num=0&edition=prelim); and
(B) a description of services to be provided to infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families through the system;
(4) if the State provides services to at-risk infants and toddlers through the statewide system, a description of such services;
(5) a description of the uses for which funds will be expended in accordance with this subchapter;
(6) a description
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**(a) Purposes** The purposes of this section are—
(1) to strengthen and improve the programs and activities carried out under this subchapter;
(2) to improve coordination of services for at risk communities; and
(3) to identify and provide comprehensive services to improve outcomes for families who reside in at risk communities.
**(b) Requirement for all States to assess statewide needs and identify at risk communities**
(1) **In general** — Each State shall, as a condition of receiving payments from an allotment for the State under [section 702 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section702&num=0&edition=prelim), conduct a statewide needs assessment (which may be separate from but in coordination with the statewide needs assessment required under [section 705(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section705/a&num=0&edition=prelim) and which shall be reviewed and updated by the State not later than October 1, 2020) that identifies—
(A) communities with concentrations of—
(i) premature birth, low-birth weight infants, and infant mortality, including infant death due to neglect, or other indicators of at-risk prenatal, maternal, newborn, or child health;
(ii) poverty;
(iii) crime;
(iv) domestic violence;
(v) high rates of high-school drop-outs;
(vi) substance abuse;
(vii) unemployment; or
(viii) child maltreatment;
(B) the quality and capacity of existing programs or initiatives for early childhood home visitation in the State including—
(i) the number and types of individuals and families who are receiving services under such programs or initiatives;
(ii) the gaps in early childhood home visitation in the State; an
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**(a) Criteria for eligibility**
**(a)**
(1)
(A) 11 So in original. The “(a)” probably should not appear. The Secretary shall by regulation prescribe eligibility for the participation of persons in Head Start programs assisted under this subchapter.
(B) Except as provided in paragraph (2), such regulation shall provide—
(i) that children from low-income families shall be eligible for participation in programs assisted under this subchapter if their families’ incomes are below the poverty line, or if their families are eligible or, in the absence of child care, would potentially be eligible for public assistance;
(ii) that homeless children shall be deemed to be eligible for such participation;
(iii) that programs assisted under this subchapter may include—
(I) to a reasonable extent (but not to exceed 10 percent of participants), participation of children in the area served who would benefit from such programs but who are not eligible under clause (i) or (ii); and
(II) from the area served, an additional 35 percent of participants who are not eligible under clause (i) or (ii) and whose families have incomes below 130 percent of the poverty line, if—
(aa) the Head Start agency involved establishes and implements outreach and enrollment policies and procedures that ensure such agency is meeting the needs of children eligible under clause (i) or (ii) (or subclause (I) if the child involved has a disability) prior to meeting the needs of children eligible under this subclause; and
(bb) in prioritizing the selection of children to be served, the Head Start agency establishes criteria that provide that the agency will serve children eligible under clause (i) or (ii) prior to serving the children eligible under this subcla
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**(a) Definition** In this section, the term “center of excellence” means a Center of Excellence in Early Childhood designated under subsection (b).
**(b) Designation and bonus grants** The Secretary shall, subject to the availability of funds under this section, establish a program under which the Secretary shall—
(1) designate not more than 200 exemplary Head Start agencies (including Early Head Start agencies, Indian Head Start agencies, and migrant and seasonal Head Start agencies) as Centers of Excellence in Early Childhood; and
(2) make bonus grants to the centers of excellence to carry out the activities described in subsection (d).
**(c) Application and designation**
(1) **Application**
(A) *Nomination and submission*
(i) *In general* — To be eligible to receive a designation as a center of excellence under subsection (b), except as provided in clause (ii), a Head Start agency in a State shall be nominated by the Governor of the State, after selection for nomination by such Governor through a competitive process, and shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require.
(ii) *Indian and migrant and seasonal Head Start programs* — In the case of an Indian Head Start agency or a migrant or seasonal Head Start agency, to be eligible to receive a designation as a center of excellence under subsection (b), such an agency shall be nominated by the head of the appropriate regional office of the Department of Health and Human Services and shall submit an application to the Secretary in accordance with clause (i).
(B) *Contents* — At a minimum, the application shall include—
(i) evidence that the Head Start program carried out by the agency involved has significan
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