Senators Kennedy and Gregg Introduce Early Care and Education Act

June 24, 2002 Senators Kennedy and Gregg Introduce Early Care and Education Act  S. 2566, the Early Care and Education Act, was introduced in the Senate by the Chairman and the Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senators Kennedy (D-MA) and Gregg (R-NH), on May 23, 2002, providing a $1 billion grant program to improve early-learning efforts nationwide. The legislation would direct the Secretaries of Education and of Health and Human Services to:  allot incentive grants to states to develop or enhance high-quality systems of early child care and early . . .