Child Development Personnel Training Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Child Development Personnel Training Act - Declares the purpose of this Act to be to respond to the demonstrated need for child development personnel in the 1970's by stimulating the development of sufficient training and educational programs in every State and region of the United States to assure an adequate supply of personnel to meet the staffing requirements of early childhood programs. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to, or to enter into contracts with, institutions of higher education, State and local child development agencies, State and local educational agencies, child development programs, private companies and organizations engaged in teacher training, teacher training organization, national child development organizations, and producers of television programing, for the purpose of establishing, developing, or upgrading early childhood personnel training programs which shall include, but shall not be limited to, the development of programs to: (1) provide postgraduate level training for teachers of professional and paraprofessional early childhood personnel and for teachers of teachers of such personnel; (2) attract and recruit …