42 U.S.C. § 9831

Statement of purpose

It is the purpose of this subchapter to promote the school readiness of low-income children by enhancing their cognitive, social, and emotional development—

(1)

in a learning environment that supports children’s growth in language, literacy, mathematics, science, social and emotional functioning, creative arts, physical skills, and approaches to learning; and

(2)

through the provision to low-income children and their families of health, educational, nutritional, social, and other services that are determined, based on family needs assessments, to be necessary.

( Pub. L. 97–35, title VI, § 636 , Aug. 13, 1981 , 95 Stat. 499 ; Pub. L. 101–501, title I, § 102 , Nov. 3, 1990 , 104 Stat. 1224 ; Pub. L. 105–285, title I, § 102 , Oct. 27, 1998 , 112 Stat. 2703 ; Pub. L. 110–134, § 2 , Dec. 12, 2007 , 121 Stat. 1363 .)