Media Coverage of Community College ECE Baccalaureate (CCB) Bill Press Conference

Illinois Action for Children recently held a press conference with several legislators, early childhood educators, and advocates in support of the Community College Baccalaureate (CCB) bill that would improve access to bachelor’s degrees for the ECE workforce and address the teacher shortage in our state.

The press conference received widespread statewide media coverage, which can be sampled below:

• Chalkbeat Chicago
• Fox Illinois TV (Springfield)
• KHQA TV ABC/CBS 7 (Quincy/Tri-State Area)
• Quad Cities Times
• The Center Square Illinois
• Belleville News-Democrat
• WGEM TV NBC (Quincy)
• WEEK NBC TV 25 (Peoria-Bloomington)
• Newschannel 20 ABC (Springfield)
• WSIL News 3 ABC (Southern Illinois)
• Rock Island Dispatch-Argus
• Capitol News Illinois
• Decatur Herald-Review
• WREX TV 13 NBC (Rockford)
• The Southern Illinoisan
• Bloomington Pantagraph
• Quincy Herald-Whig
• Kankakee Daily Journal
• Lincoln Courier
• Bellevue Herald-Leader

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