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Early Education and Care: Overlap Indicates Need to Assess Crosscutting Programs

HEHS-00-78 Published: Apr 28, 2000. Publicly Released: Apr 28, 2000.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO updated its 1994 report federally funded programs that provide or support education or child care for children under age 5, focusing on: (1) what portion of the budget authority for these programs was used for education and care for children under age 5 and how many children in this age group participated in the programs; (2) what types of children these programs target and what services are provided to these children; and (3) what information is needed to assess whether the current array of federal programs is duplicative and what issues should be considered to improve overall efficiency of early childhood education and care programs.

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Budget authorityChild care programsDisadvantaged personsPreschool educationPreschoolersRedundancyStrategic planningEarly childhood educationHead Start programsSpecial education