Quality & Workforce Committee

The Committee's charge is to address the urgent needs to develop, recruit and retain a qualified, diverse workforce representative of the communities served. Identify steps to mitigate the systemic workforce problems without compromising high standards, including accessible pathways and equitable compensation to stabilize the workforce and enhance the public's perception of early educators. Identify and support efforts to improve program quality using a racial equity lens.

• Quality & Workforce Committee: ExceleRate Illinois Proposed Standards Framework - Approved February 5, 2024
• Quality Committee: Consensus Statement on Early Childhood Educator Compensation - Approved August 5, 2019
• ExceleRate Subcommittee: Recommendations for Support of Site-Based Program Leaders - Approved April 1, 2019
• Senate Bill 1829 Ad Hoc: Recommendations re: Senate Bill 1829 (see also Ad Hoc Guiding Principles and Request Letter from Senator Hutchinson) - Approved August 2017

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