Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 121.djvu/1394

 PUBLIC LAW 110–134—DEC. 12, 2007

121 STAT. 1373

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‘‘(iii) provide education and professional development to enable teachers to be fully competent to meet the professional standards established under section 648A(a)(1), including— ‘‘(I) providing assistance to complete postsecondary course work; ‘‘(II) improving the qualifications and skills of educational personnel to become certified and licensed as bilingual education teachers, or as teachers of English as a second language; and ‘‘(III) improving the qualifications and skills of educational personnel to teach and provide services to children with disabilities. ‘‘(B) Any remaining funds from the reserved amount described in subparagraph (A) shall be used to carry out any of the following activities: ‘‘(i) Supporting staff training, child counseling, and other services, necessary to address the challenges of children from immigrant, refugee, and asylee families, homeless children, children in foster care, limited English proficient children, children of migrant or seasonal farmworker families, children from families in crisis, children referred to Head Start programs (including Early Head Start programs) by child welfare agencies, and children who are exposed to chronic violence or substance abuse. ‘‘(ii) Ensuring that the physical environments of Head Start programs are conducive to providing effective program services to children and families, and are accessible to children with disabilities and other individuals with disabilities. ‘‘(iii) Employing additional qualified classroom staff to reduce the child-to-teacher ratio in the classroom and additional qualified family service workers to reduce the family-to-staff ratio for those workers. ‘‘(iv) Ensuring that Head Start programs have qualified staff that promote the language skills and literacy growth of children and that provide children with a variety of skills that have been identified, through scientifically based reading research, as predictive of later reading achievement. ‘‘(v) Increasing hours of program operation, including— ‘‘(I) conversion of part-day programs to full-workingday programs; and ‘‘(II) increasing the number of weeks of operation in a calendar year. ‘‘(vi) Improving communitywide strategic planning and needs assessments for Head Start programs and collaboration efforts for such programs, including outreach to children described in clause (i). ‘‘(vii) Transporting children in Head Start programs safely, except that not more than 10 percent of funds made available to carry out this paragraph may be used for such purposes. ‘‘(viii) Improving the compensation and benefits of staff of Head Start agencies, in order to improve the quality of Head Start programs. ‘‘(6) No sums appropriated under this subchapter may be combined with funds appropriated under any provision other than this subchapter if the purpose of combining funds is to make a single discretionary grant or a single discretionary payment, unless

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