Illinois HB4791 expands the Smart Start Child Care Workforce Compensation Program to include Head Start and Early Head Start programs.
Illinois HB4791 amends the Smart Start Illinois Act to expand eligibility under the Smart Start Child Care Workforce Compensation Program to include Head Start and Early Head Start programs. The Department of Human Services will create and establish this program to invest in early childhood education and care service providers. The program aims to stabilize community-based early childhood education and care, raise the wages of early childhood educators, and support quality enhancements. The program will operate separately from the Child Care Assistance Program and will not supplant it.
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