---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 1161i"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "1161i"
heading: "Purpose"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/1161i"
units:
  - "Chapter 28 — Higher Education Resources and Student Assistance"
  - "Subchapter IX — Additional Programs"
  - "Part I — Early Childhood Education Professional Development and Career Task Force"
---

# §1161i. Purpose


The purposes of this part are—

- (1) to improve the quality of the early childhood education workforce by creating a statewide early childhood education professional development and career task force for [early childhood education program](/usc/20/1003.md?p=8) staff, directors, administrators, and faculty; and
- (2) to create—
  - (A) a coherent system of core competencies, pathways to qualifications, credentials, degrees, quality assurances, access, and outreach, for [early childhood education program](/usc/20/1003.md?p=8) staff, directors, administrators, and faculty that is linked to compensation commensurate with experience and qualifications;
  - (B) articulation agreements that enable early childhood education professionals to transition easily among degrees; and
  - (C) compensation initiatives for individuals working in an [early childhood education program](/usc/20/1003.md?p=8) that reflect the individuals’ credentials, degrees, and experience.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–329, title VIII, § 811, as added Pub. L. 110–315, title VIII, § 801, Aug. 14, 2008, 122 Stat. 3397.)