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Relating to programs for at-risk children
Sponsored by the House Education Committee
Topics:K–12 education
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 21, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 21, 2021
- Done: House committeeJanuary 28, 2021
- Done: Passes the HouseFebruary 16, 2021
- Done: Senate committeeApril 1, 2021
- Done: Passes the SenateApril 7, 202144–0
- Done: To the GovernorApril 30, 2021
- Done: Signed into lawApril 30, 2021
Signed into law What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Area education agencies can now use certain state funds to help child development programs create plans and budgets for early childhood education. This change allows these agencies to support programs that receive money through the child development coordinating council. The bill also removes old rules that required specific preschool and kindergarten combinations for certain grant awards.1
Read the official explanation
This bill modifies provisions relating to programs for at-risk children. The bill provides that moneys appropriated to the department of education and allocated to area education agencies to provide assistance to school districts in developing program plans and budgets to meet early childhood education needs may also be used by the area education agencies to provide the same assistance to child development programs that receive state funds through the child development coordinating council. The bill also eliminates outdated language relating to grant awards the child development council may make to school district programs for three-to-five-year-old at-risk children. The stricken language provides that the programs must be a combination of preschool and full-day kindergarten.
House subcommittee
Named January 21, 2021 (as HSB 105). On January 26, 2021 it recommended passage.
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