The Chicago Tribune reports that Governor JB Pritzker has decided to lessen the mandate given to the Department of Children and Family Services:
‘”the state budget year will also mark the launch of Pritzker’s new Department of Early Childhood as a stand-alone state agency, with day care licensing responsibilities and staff transferred from the Department of Children and Family Services. Pritzker is proposing a budget of nearly $2.1 billion from the state’s general fund for the new department, with some of that funding transferred from DCFS and other existing agency budgets.” [Emphasis added.]
This is an idea suggested by State Rep. Steve Reick.
