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Senate Bill 23 |
Senate Author: Zaffirini et al. |
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Effective: 9-1-05 |
House Sponsor: Kolkhorst et al. |
Senate Bill 23 amends the Education Code relating to the coordination and integration of certain early childhood care and education programs. The bill authorizes the commissioner of education to provide incentives to providers of early childhood care and education programs that provide certain coordinated services, authorizes the development of coordination-of-resources demonstration projects for early education services, and requires the State Center for Early Childhood Development and the P-16 Council to develop and adopt a school readiness certification system for use in certifying the effectiveness of certain prekindergarten, Head Start and Early Head Start, and government-subsidized child-care programs.