Head Start for Our Future Act

Head Start for Our Future Act

This bill adds child development and early learning to the list of community services in which undergraduate, graduate, and professional students may participate under a federal work-study program.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 656 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 656

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to include child development 
 and early learning as community services under the Federal work-study 
                                program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 31, 2023

 Mr. Castro of Texas (for himself, Mr. Moolenaar, Ms. Spanberger, and 
  Mr. Cole) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to include child development 
 and early learning as community services under the Federal work-study 
                                program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Head Start for Our Future Act''.

SEC. 2. CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND EARLY LEARNING COMMUNITY SERVICES.

    Section 441(c)(1) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1087-51(c)(1)) is amended by striking ``literacy training'' and 
inserting ``child development and early learning (including Head Start 
programs and Early Head Start programs carried out under the Head Start 
Act (42 U.S.C. 9831 et seq.)), literacy training''.
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