Title 20 — EducationRelease 119-73not60

§1161i Purpose

Title 20 › Chapter 28— HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCES AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE › Subchapter IX— ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS › Part I— Early Childhood Education Professional Development and Career Task Force › § 1161i

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates a statewide task force to raise the skills and quality of the early childhood education workforce, covering teachers, program staff, directors, administrators, and faculty. Also requires making a clear system that sets core skills, career paths, credentials and degrees, quality checks, access and outreach, and pay linked to experience and qualifications; agreements that let workers move smoothly between degree programs; and pay initiatives that match workers’ credentials, degrees, and experience.

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Title 20, §1161i

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The purposes of this part are—

(1)to improve the quality of the early childhood education workforce by creating a statewide early childhood education professional development and career task force for early childhood education program staff, directors, administrators, and faculty; and

(2)to create—

(A)a coherent system of core competencies, pathways to qualifications, credentials, degrees, quality assurances, access, and outreach, for early childhood education program staff, directors, administrators, and faculty that is linked to compensation commensurate with experience and qualifications;

(B)articulation agreements that enable early childhood education professionals to transition easily among degrees; and

(C)compensation initiatives for individuals working in an early childhood education program that reflect the individuals’ credentials, degrees, and experience.

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Citation

20 U.S.C. § 1161i

Title 20 — Education

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60