This report recommends that H.R. 3, the Early Childhood Education and Development Act of 1989, be passed as amended. Titles of the Act concern: (1) the expansion of Project Head Start; (2) early childhood development and school-related child care; (3) child care services for infants, toddlers, and young children; (4) child care and early childhood…

This manual was designed to assist Texas school districts in their efforts to implement Senate Bill (SB) 913 and to serve as a guide for organizing child care programs in the schools. Chapter 1 provides a summary of SB 913, a bill that requires school districts with more than 5,000 students to hold annual public hearings on out-of-school care for…

This document presents a set of standards to be used in planning and establishing a high quality child care program. The standards are based on the recommendations of technical panels that studied particular facets in child care and are intended to serve as goals for practice and guidelines for implementation. The nine chapters of the text address…