SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation Tuesday creating a new cabinet-level state agency dedicated to early childhood education and development. The new Department of Early ...

CHICAGO -- Gov. JB Pritzker signed legislation Tuesday creating a new cabinet-level state agency dedicated to early childhood education and development. The new Department of Early Childhood, which ...

The new agency, which will be known as the Early Childhood Agency, will focus on the early childhood block grant, which funds preschool for all, the prevention initiative home-visiting program and the ...

Vowing to make Illinois the top state in the nation for child care accessibility, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker unveiled a plan Tuesday to consolidate all the state’s early childhood programs and ...

SPRINGFIELD – Vowing to make Illinois the top state in the nation for child care accessibility, Gov. JB Pritzker unveiled a plan Tuesday to consolidate all the state’s early childhood programs and ...

(WAND) - Governor Pritzker was joined by Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton, Deputy Governor Grace Hou, Deputy Governor Martin Torres, elected officials, and state agency directors at the Carole ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Vowing to make Illinois the top state in the nation for child care accessibility, Gov. JB Pritzker unveiled a plan Tuesday to consolidate all the state's early childhood programs ...

The Illinois House on Thursday passed Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s initiative to consolidate early childhood services under a single agency, paving the way for the creation of a new state Department of Early ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois House gave final passage Thursday to a bill establishing a new cabinet-level state agency whose mission will be to provide a kind of one-stop shop for services ...

Parents of young children in Illinois often find themselves navigating a complex, fragmented system as they try to get quality day care, preschool or services for babies and toddlers with ...