Child care and education

Lights, Camera ... Childcare! Previewed

by | Jun 7, 2023 8:56 am | Comments (1)

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In the ex-theater's, future childcare center's front lobby ...

... and refurbished screening room.

Voices lifted in exuberant song outside a movie theater overlooking Middletown Avenue?

Just a few years ago, a scene like that might have been unthinkable at the scruffy but beloved Cine 4 theater that closed last year after 51 years in operation.

The occasion was a sneak peek of Friends Center Flint Street — named for the pitted drive that leads up to the familiar flat-top white building where a local childcare nonprofit plans to build a new early education campus.

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Dinner Talk LEAPs Into Child Care Crisis

by | Feb 28, 2023 10:00 am | Comments (6)

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Allyx Schiavone at LEAP fundraiser dinner at Taste of China.

When Brittny Barnes had her first baby, child care came with sticker shock.

It was like a mortgage,” she told the 20 attendees assembled at Taste of China for a conversation featuring Allyx Schiavone, executive director of the Friends Center for Children and a champion of affordable child care.

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