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GAO-05-678R 1 (2005-06-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaruj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SGAO Accountability * Integrity Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 June 2, 2005 The Honorable Michael B. Enzi Chairman Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions United States Senate The Honorable Lamar Alexander Chairman Subcommittee on Education and Early Childhood Development Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions United States Senate The Honorable George V. Voinovich Chairman Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs United States Senate Subject: GAO Update on the Number of Prekindergarten Care and Education Programs This letter responds to your request concerning our April 2000 report, Early Education and Care: Overlap Indicates Need to Assess Crosscutting Programs (GAO/HEHS-00-78). Given the historical concern regarding the potential for program overlap among federal early childhood education and care programs, you asked that we update the list of programs providing or supporting education or care for children under the age of 5. The 2000 list included 69 programs, which were administered by 9 different agencies.' To respond to your request, we replicated the keyword search from our 2000 report using the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA). After assessing the reliability of the CFDA, we determined it was suitable for our purposes. We obtained explanations regarding programs that were deleted from the CFDA. Our search yielded 254 programs, and we reviewed their descriptions to determine if they met three criteria: (1) directly funded or supported education and/or child care, (2) provided these services to children under age 5, and (3) delivered services in an I This report was a follow-up to a 1994 report in which we found that there were 90 early childhood programs at the federal level: Early Childhood Programs: Multiple Programs and Overlapping Target Groups (GAO/HEHS-954FS, Oct. 31, 1994). GAO-05-678R Update on Prekindergarten Care and Education Programs

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