S 186
117th Congress
Senate
Labor and Employment
Child care and development
Congressional oversight
Education programs funding
Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Housing and community development funding
Indian social and development programs
Minority education
Performance measurement
Preschool education
Rural conditions and development
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Wages and earnings
Early Educators Apprenticeship Act
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 2, 2021
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Feb 2, 2021
Introduced in Senate
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Plain-English summary
Early Educators Apprenticeship Act
This bill establishes a grant program to award to partnerships—which may include employers, institutions of higher education, labor unions, and community-based organizations—the federal share of the costs of apprenticeship programs focused on early childhood education.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 186: Early Educators Apprenticeship Act. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-186/
"S. 186: Early Educators Apprenticeship Act." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-186/.
S. 186, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-186/.
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