Early childhood programs may suffer state's inability to pay education bills

Date: Jul 17, 2010
Source: Herald & Review, Decatur, IL
By: Valerie Wells

Supporters of early childhood education worry about the impact of cuts Gov. Pat Quinn has announced to education. Though preschool and early learning programs are supposed to receive the same $342 million they did last year, many of them haven't yet been paid for last year and had to dip into reserves to keep going.

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