A new state agency could be coming to Illinois.

The Governor is proposing a consolidation of all the states’ early childhood programs into one place. JB Pritzker has long made childhood education and services a keystone of his administration. He says an agency would have a unified focus on better serving families and children.

Pritzker says other states have done this. Currently childhood services are spread out over three agencies from the State Board of Education to Human Services and Children and Family Services.