§ 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].)