HB 380 (BR 1025) - T. Burch
AN ACT relating to preschool education grants and making an appropriation therefor.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 157 to establish a grant program administered by the Early Childhood Development Authority to develop collaborative models of preschool education for unserved children living at 200 percent of the federal poverty level and below; require collaboration among all community providers; require administrative regulations to define the eligible applicants; require the authority to study the long-term need and projected cost of serving all three and four-year old children by the 2011-2012 school year and report its findings to the Legislative Research Commission prior to January 1, 2009; establish a trust fund to be administered by the Early Childhood Development Authority to allot grants to provide collaborative models of community-based preschool for unserved children.
Jan 28-introduced in House
Jan 29-to Education (H)