Section 4-416 - [Not funded.] Expansion of the Quality Improvement Network.(a) OSSE shall lead an initiative to ensure the availability of infant and toddler child care that meets Early Head Start program performance standards in Wards 7 and 8 and dual language learners living in communities with concentrated poverty by 2023 and for all eligible infants and toddlers living in concentrated poverty citywide by 2025.(b) By January 1, 2019, and on an annual basis thereafter, OSSE shall submit a report to the Council:(1) Identifying all child development facilities serving either 50% or more Early Head Start eligible children in Wards 7 and 8, or 25% or more dual language learners;(2) Analyzing the capacity of child development facilities to provide services at the highest QRIS level, meet Early Head Start program performance standards, and ensure culturally and linguistically competent care for all children, including children with developmental delays and disabilities;(3) Determining whether the Quality Improvement Network has sufficient resources to build capacity in all child development facilities to provide services at the highest QRIS level, meet Early Head Start program performance standards, and ensure culturally and linguistically competent care for all children, including children with developmental delays and disabilities; and(4) Identifying additional resources necessary to ensure that child development facilities possess the resources necessary to provide the services identified in paragraph (3) of this subsection.(c) For the purposes of this section, the term: (1) "Dual language learner" means an infant, toddler, or child between the ages of 3 to 5 years learning to speak 2 languages simultaneously or sequentially.(2) "Early Head Start" means a program established pursuant to section 645 a of the Head Start Act Amendments of 1994, approved May 18, 1994 ( 42 U.S.C. § 9840a ).Sept. 19, 1979, D.C. Law 3-16, § 15b; Oct. 30, 2018, D.C. Law 22-179, § 201(e), 65 DCR 9569.Applicability
Applicability of D.C. Law 22-179: § 301 of D.C. Law 22-179 provided that the creation of this section by § 201(e) of D.C. Law 22-179 is subject to the inclusion of the law's fiscal effect in an approved budget and financial plan. Therefore that amendment has not been implemented.