Relating to education; modifying provisions relating to early childhood and family education (ECFE); modifying certain distribution of appropriation provisions; specifying application requirements for eligible head start organizations; specifying actual children served reporting requirements; requiring the commissioner of education to work in partnership with health care providers and community organizers to provide parent education information to parents of newborns at the time of birth; including relatives as part of ECFE programs; establishing an early childhood and family education (ECFE) grant program; requiring the commissioner of education to implement a kindergarten readiness assessment representative of incoming kindergarteners based on the department kindergarten readiness assessment, providing for school districts to establish kindergarten readiness intervention pilot programs under certain conditions; establishing a grant program to assist child care centers, licensed family child care providers and family, friend and neighbor caregivers to provide an educational component and implement school readiness criteria in the child care setting, specifying eligibility and application process, providing for grant review and proceeds, requiring a report to the commissioner; modifying certain prior head start appropriations; appropriating money to the commissioner of education for the educate parents partnership, school readiness in child care settings, school readiness assessment and intervention pilot program and ECFE grants; repealing certain head start definitions
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