Head Start Extension Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Head Start Extension Act - Title I: Program Authority and Requirements - States that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare may, upon application by any agency which is eligible for designation as a Head Start agency, provide financial assistance to such agency for the planning, conduct, administration, and evaluation of a program to be known as "Project Head Start" focused on children from low-income families who have not reached the age of compulsory school attendance, which: (1) will provide such comprehensive health, nutritional, education, social, and other serivces as the Secretary finds will aid the children to attain their full potential, and (2) will provide for direct participation of the parents of such children in the development, conduct, and overall program direction at the local level. Authorizes to be appropriated for carrying out the purposes of this Act such sums as may be necessary for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and the two succeeding fiscal years. Provides for the allotment of such funds, setting limitations on the extent of assistance. States that a public or private nonprofit agency which (1) has the power and authority to carry out the pur…