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S. 1673: Early Childhood Care and Education Workforce Improvement Act

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S. 1673: Early Childhood Care and Education Workforce Improvement Act

113th Congress · introduced 2013-11-07 · Education · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2013-11-07 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Sen. Franken, Al [D-MN] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Early Childhood Care and Education Workforce Improvement Act

Plain summary

Early Childhood Care and Education Workforce Improvement Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education and the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) (Secretaries) to award competitive matching grants to states to support services for early childhood educators and early childhood care and education programs across all early childhood age groups. Requires grant applicants to demonstrate that they have a comprehensive early childhood educator professional development system or a plan for developing one. Requires the grants to be used to: provide scholarships to current or prospective early childhood educators to earn a child development associate credential or an associate or baccalaureate degree in early childhood education or a closely related field; enhance or expand professional development to help early childhood care and education programs improve by at least one level on the state's quality rating and improvement system, if the state has one; provide ongoing professional development opportunities for early childhood educators; encourage cross-sector training opportunities for teachers and staff working in Head Start programs, Early Head Start programs, child care programs, early intervention programs, infant and early childhood mental health programs, home visiting programs, and state-funded prekindergarten and preschool programs; and expand the number of early childhood educators who are trained to work with infants and toddlers. Requires states to give priority to using the grant funds to provide such scholarships. Prohibits this Act's grant funds from being used to supplant other federal, state, or local funds provided for early childhood workforce improvement programs. Directs the Secretaries to carry out their responsibilities under this Act in accordance with the terms they set forth in an interagency agreement.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Early Childhood Care and Education Workforce Improvement Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)

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Sponsor: Sen. Franken, Al [D-MN] · 0 cosponsors

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong113-s1673 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113