The $6.8-million project at Morningside Elementary School follows the lead of a similar model at Hargrave Elementary School in the Crowley ISD.
Early Head Start teacher Rubi Cano sits with Adonis Henry on the playground outside Hargrave Elementary School. The Crowley ISD school is one of the first in the nation to provide infant and toddler services on their campus.
The $6.8-million project will consist of five classrooms focused on infants and toddlers up to age 3, but it remains to be seen how many children will be accommodated and whether an outside organization will operate the center. The construction will consist of renovating an existing annex building at Morningside, built in the 1970s, that is slated to be 9,217 square feet once it’s finished, Naughton said.
“We see this as being an opportunity to make sure that we’re providing students high-quality instruction and high-quality child care from the very beginning,” Olayinka Moore-Ojo, Fort Worth ISD’s executive director of early learning, told the Star-Telegram in early 2022.at its Hargrave Elementary School campus that’s operated by Child Care Associates, one of the largest child development organizations in North Texas.
Fort Worth ISD officials are looking at areas that are considered child care deserts, which have minimal to no access to high-quality, affordable child care. Morningside Elementary is located just north of the 76115 ZIP code, which has a maximum of five child care seats per 100 children of working parents, according to data from advocacy organization Children At Risk.
Students who attend high-quality early childhood education programs are less likely to be placed in special education classes or held back a grade in their academic career; they’re also more likely to graduate from high school,Lina Ruiz covers early childhood education in Tarrant County and North Texas for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. A University of Florida graduate, she previously wrote about local government in South Florida for TCPalm and Treasure Coast Newspapers.
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