Relating to early childhood education; establishing and providing early childhood community hub planning and implementation grants for school districts and tribal schools to increase school readiness, requiring collaboration among early childhood, health and family services and the K-12 education system, parental information and education, kindergarten transition services and comprehensive early care and education programs for low income families, requiring grant recipients to use grants to plan and implement early childhood community hubs, specifying responsibilities, eligibility, program components, grant application process, staff qualifications, match requirement, advisory committees and grant applicants review and award requirements; establishing and providing prekindergarten through grade 3 program grants to develop community based public school collaborative programs to promote school readiness, future school success and assist families through coordination of early childhood and early elementary initiatives to close the achievement gap, specifying program components, eligibility, grant application process, match requirement and grant applicants review and award requirements; requiring the commissioner of education to develop a plan to expand to all school districts the developmental assessment (MDE) administered to entering kindergartners; appropriating money to the commissioner of education for the grants
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