It's time to thank those who inspire and teach our earliest learners!  Nominate an early childhood champion by March 31, 2023 using this link. Our categories are: emerging professional student award, emerging professional award, professional of the year award, and volunteer of the year award.  We will recognize the award winners at Illinois Public Media's Early Childhood Champions Awards celebration on Friday, May 12, 2023, 5:30pm-7:30pm at Illinois Public Media's Collins Studio.
 

WILL-TV, in collaboration with PBS KIDS, presents our first annual Early Childhood Champions Awards! Nominate a talented champion who works with young children in central Illinois by April 9, 2021.

Children love games.  In addition, they love positive attention from the adults in their lives.  If you combine these two with a little guidance from Sesame Street’s Finances for Kids, you can help children as young as four years old learn the basics of financial literacy.

More than $9 million dollars in federal funding has been announced to help Head Start programs in central Illinois.

An outbreak of norovirus closed the Rantoul Head Start Center Wednesday, and the facility will stay closed for the rest of the week. That’s according to the Champaign County Regional Planning Commission, which operates Head Start programs in the county.