H.R. 3778: EARLY Act
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H.R. 3778: EARLY Act
113th Congress · introduced 2013-12-16 · Education · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2013-12-16 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
EARLY Act
Plain summary
Expanded Access to Real Learning for our Young Act or the EARLY Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to states to carry out full-day prekindergarten programs. Requires those programs to: be located at public schools, if practicable, or otherwise carried out by private or other community providers; permit parents, regardless of income, to voluntary enroll their four-year old children in the programs and do so at no cost if their combined income does not exceed 400% of the poverty line; be full-day programs that run the length of the regular school year; maintain a maximum class size of 20 children, with at least 1 prekindergarten teacher per classroom; ensure that the ratio of children to prekindergarten teachers and teacher aides does not exceed 10 to 1; be taught by teachers who are paid a salary comparable to kindergarten through grade 12 teachers at the state's public schools; and meet a minimum level of parental engagement set by the state. Requires the Secretary to give grant priority to states that carry out such programs at public schools. Prohibits the federal share of a grant from exceeding 75% of the prekindergarten program's costs.
Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53] · 3 cosponsors
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Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA), Paul Tonko (D-NY)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-113hr3778.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/113/hr>
Record fed-us-cong113-hr3778 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113