§ 9831 Statement of purpose
§ 9832 Definitions
§ 9833 Financial assistance for Head Start programs
§ 9834 Authorization of appropriations
§ 9835 Allotment of funds
§ 9836 Designation of Head Start agencies
§ 9836a Standards; monitoring of Head Start agencies and programs
§ 9837 Powers and functions of Head Start agencies
§ 9837a Head Start transition and alignment with K-12 education
§ 9837b Head Start collaboration; State early education and care
§ 9838 Submission of plans to chief executive officer
§ 9839 Administrative requirements and standards
§ 9840 Participation in Head Start programs
§ 9840a Early Head Start programs
§ 9841 Appeals, notice, hearing, and mediation; alternative agency for Indian tribe
§ 9842 Records and audits
§ 9843 Technical assistance and training
§ 9843a Staff qualifications and development
§ 9844 Research, demonstrations, and evaluation
§ 9846 Reports
§ 9848 Comparability of wages
§ 9849 Nondiscrimination provisions
§ 9850 Limitation with respect to certain unlawful activities
§ 9851 Political activities
§ 9852 Advance funding
§ 9852a Parental consent requirement for nonemergency intrusive physical examinations
§ 9852b Centers of Excellence in Early Childhood
§ 9852c General provisions

Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 42 > Chapter 105 > Subchapter II - Head Start Programs

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • association: when used in reference to a corporation, shall be deemed to embrace the words "successors and assigns of such company or association" in like manner as if these last-named words, or words of similar import, were expressed. See 1 USC 5
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • county: includes a parish, or any other equivalent subdivision of a State or Territory of the United States. See 1 USC 2
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
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  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • officer: includes any person authorized by law to perform the duties of the office. See 1 USC 1
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • State: means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any other territory or possession of the United States. See 1 USC 7
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • vehicle: includes every description of carriage or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on land. See 1 USC 4