It is the purpose of this subchapter to promote school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of low-income children through the provision, to low-income children and their families, of health, educational, nutritional, social, and other services that are determined, based on family needs assessments, to be necessary.
(Pub. L. 97-35, title VI, Sec. 636, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 499; Pub. L. 101-501, title I, Sec. 102, Nov. 3, 1990, 104 Stat. 1224; Pub. L. 105-285, title I, Sec. 102, Oct. 27, 1998, 112 Stat. 2703.)