Welcome to DuPage Early Childhood Collaboration (DECC).
An ever-growing partnership comprised of more than 50 providers and organizations. Dedicated to providing accessible, high quality services for children and their families during the most impactful, most formative time of their young lives – from birth to age eight. Because strong foundations lead to bright futures.
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Early childhood education can bring more and better jobs to a state and can thereby promote higher per‑capita earnings for the state’s residents.
Timothy J. Bartiksenior economist, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI
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Thinking about early childhood, it’s not just a question about getting kids to read a little faster or stay in school longer. It’s about providing a benefit for the entire economy. Not just the present economy – the economy going forward.
James J. HeckmanHenry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago; Nobel Memorial Prize winner in economics and expert in the economics of human development
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