Sec. 123. Access grants providing infant and toddler child care for community college or minority-serving institution student parents
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An eligible entity receiving a grant under this section shall use grant funds to expand access to free infant and toddler child care for community college or minority-serving institution student parents by carrying out 1 or more of the following: Paying the infant and toddler child care costs of community college or minority-serving institution student parents at an on-campus child care center, State licensed off-campus child care center, or State licensed or registered home-based child care provider.
Operating an on-campus child care center that provides infant and toddler child care; or contracting with a child care provider that is operating 1 or more child care centers (as of the date of the contract) to operate an on-campus child care center that provides infant and toddler child care. Coordinating with local child care resource and referral agencies for services such as helping community college or minority-serving institution student parents find infant and toddler child care.
Expanding the resources for existing on-campus child care centers, as of the date of the application for the grant, by— expanding the space of the center for infant and toddler child care; purchasing equipment to be used for infant and toddler child care; or hiring staff to accommodate additional children under the age of 3. Lengthening the hours of an existing on-campus infant and toddler child care center or keeping the on-campus infant and toddler child care center open during breaks (including summer).
Establishing capacity for drop-in infant and toddler child care or flex infant and toddler child care for the children of community college or minority-serving institution student parents. Renovating campus facilities to allow for the operation of an on-campus child care center that— satisfies the standards that apply to alterations or (as applicable) new construction under title II or III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ( 42 U.S.C. 12131 et seq., 12181 et seq.), as the case may be; and meets a high-quality standard, according to a State quality rating and improvement system or the standards applicable to an Early Head Start program under the Head Start Act ( 42 U.S.C. 9831 et seq.); or is accredited through the National Association for the Education of Young Children or another organization of similar expertise, as determined by the Secretary.
In order for an on-campus child care center of a community college or minority-serving institution participating in an eligible entity to be supported with funds from a grant under this section, the on-campus child care center shall meet the following requirements: The child care center shall be licensed by the State and shall meet a high-quality standard described in subsection (a)(7)(B)(i) or be accredited in accordance with subsection (a)(7)(B)(ii). Children of community college or minority-serving institution student parents shall receive priority enrollment in the child care center, with priority going first to low-income community college or minority-serving institution student parents, although dependents of faculty and staff of the community college or minority-serving institution and community members may be enrolled once the enrollment needs of all requesting community college or minority-serving institution student parents are fulfilled.
The child care center shall provide infant and toddler child care to children of community college or minority-serving institution student parents, without regard as to whether the parent is a full-time or part-time student. Not less than 85 percent of the community college or minority-serving institution student parents using the on-campus child care center for infant and toddler child care shall be eligible to receive Federal Pell Grants under section 401 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 401 ), except that the Secretary may grant a waiver from this requirement if the Secretary determines necessary.
The child care center shall provide drop-in infant and toddler child care for community college and minority-serving institution student parents and may not impose minimum enrollment requirements for children of community college or minority-serving institution student parents. The Secretary shall promulgate regulations that specify the percentage of infant and toddler child care slots that must be reserved for drop-in infant and toddler child care under this paragraph. The child care center— shall provide infant and toddler child care for children under the age of 3 (as of the first day of the academic year of the community college or minority-serving institution supporting the child care center) of community college and minority-serving institution student parents for free; may charge faculty and staff of the community college or minority institution and community members fees, using a sliding scale based on family income, to enroll their children in the child care center; and shall comply with the suspension and expulsion performance standard for Head Start programs under section 1302.17 of title 45, Code of Federal Regulations, or any successor standard.
The child care center shall maintain a continuity of care for the children of parents who— were community college or minority-serving institution student parents during any reasonable or unavoidable break in the parents' enrollment; or transferred from a community college to a 4-year minority-serving institution during the student's enrollment at the 4-year institution. The child care center may charge a parent described in subparagraph
(A)a fee for the child care services provided during the period when the parent is not enrolled in the community college or minority-serving institution, using a sliding scale based on family income during this period, as long as the fee does not exceed 7 percent of the family's income. The child care center shall pay its child care staff a wage that— is comparable to wages for elementary educators with similar credentials and experience in the State; and at a minimum, provides a living wage for all child care staff of the child care center. The child care center, if not a child care provider covered by subsection
(c)of section 658H of the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 ( 42 U.S.C. 9858f ), shall comply with that section in the same manner and to the same extent as such a child care provider, with respect to background checks for child care staff members (including prospective child care staff members) for the center. An eligible entity receiving a grant under this section shall, for each year of the grant, consult with an infant and toddler child care committee described in section 122(a)(2) regarding the results of the grant and the contents of the annual report submitted to the Secretary. An eligible entity receiving a grant under this section shall, for each year of the grant, prepare and submit a report to the Secretary that includes— the number of community college or minority-serving institution student parents that received access to State licensed or registered child care because of the grant, in the aggregate and disaggregated by age, gender, race and ethnicity, family income, disability status, and full-time or part-time enrollment status in the community college or minority-serving institution; the number of children under age 3 enrolled in each on-campus child care center supported under the grant, disaggregated by age, gender, disability status, marital status of parents, and race and ethnicity; for each on-campus child care center supported under the grant, the number of suspensions of children enrolled in the child care center, in the aggregate and disaggregated by race and ethnicity, gender, and disability status; the demographics, including race, ethnicity, and gender of the staff and leadership of all child care centers supported under the grant; the most frequent times of the day and days of the week, and the average number of hours per week, that on-campus child care centers were used by community college or minority-serving institution student parents, and the child care hours per week provided to community college or minority-serving institution student parents, disaggregated by child care provided at nontraditional hours and traditional daytime, weekday child care; semester-to-semester persistence and fall-to-fall persistence rates of community college or minority-serving institution student parents with children enrolled in infant and toddler child care sponsored by the community college or minority-serving institution, compared to the persistence rate of community college or minority-serving institution student parents with children under 3 who are not enrolled in community college or minority-serving institution sponsored child care— collected in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Secretary; and in the aggregate and disaggregated as described in subparagraph
(A)and by the age of the children of the community college or minority-serving institution students; the degree or certificate completion rate of community college minority-serving institution student parents with children enrolled in child care that is sponsored by the community college or minority-serving institution and is not infant and toddler child care, in the aggregate and disaggregated as described in such subparagraph and by the age of the children of the community college or minority-serving institution student parents; and if grant funds are used to renovate campus facilities under subsection (a)(7), proof of the on-campus child care center's compliance with the standards that apply to alterations or (as applicable) new construction under title II or III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ( 42 U.S.C. 12131 et seq., 12181 et seq.), as the case may be. In each report submitted by an eligible entity under paragraph (2), the eligible entity shall also provide the information described in subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), and (F)(ii) of such paragraph cross-tabulated by, at a minimum, gender, disability status, and each major racial and ethnic group, which shall be presented in a manner that— is first anonymized and does not reveal personally identifiable information about an individual community college or minority-serving institution student parent or child enrolled in the child care center; does not include a number of individuals in any subgroup of community college or minority-serving institution student parents or children enrolled in the child care center that is insufficient to yield statistically reliable information or that would reveal personally identifiable information about an individual; and is consistent with the requirements of section 444 of the General Education Provisions Act ( 20 U.S.C. 1232g , commonly known as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 ). In subsection (b)(9), the term child care staff member means an individual— who is employed by a child care center covered by subsection
(b)for compensation; or whose activities involve the care or supervision of children for, or unsupervised access to children who are cared for or supervised by, such a child care center.
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