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§ 9407. —  Uses of funds.



[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
  January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 20USC9407]

 
                           TITLE 20--EDUCATION
 
                CHAPTER 75--EARLY LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
 
Sec. 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 uses

    Subject 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) Requirements

    Each 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 payments

    States 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, Sec. 1(a)(1) [title VIII, Sec. 808], Dec. 21, 2000, 
114 Stat. 2763, 2763A-83.)



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