The Hawk Eye
The Burlington School District has received $263,000 in donations and grants to be put toward the development of Corse Early Childhood Center.
Of that money, $180,000 was awarded through Iowa Workforce Development. That money is a portion of $13 million in Childcare Challenge and Investing in Iowa s Childcare grants awarded to organizations throughout the state to expand access to childcare.
The remaining funds come from Burlington Kiwanis, which donated $15,000, and the Early Childhood Iowa Board, from which the district was awarded a $68,000 grant.
The district will begin offering childcare for children ages 1-5 and 3-year-old preschool at Corse Early Childhood Center at the start of the 2021-22 school year. These programs join the Community Action Head Start and 4-year-old preschool programs already available at Corse.
Program tuition rates have been set for the Corse Early Childhood Center.
Brian Baker, principal of the former elementary school building that now houses the Burlington School District s preschool program alongside Community Action of Southeast Iowa s Head Start program, presented the rates to the Burlington School Board Monday. We are a little bit higher than the average, Baker said, explaining the proposed tuition rates were determined based upon comparisons with similar programs in Danville, West Burlington and at the YMCA and various Catholic schools, as well as average rates from Iowa s Child Care Resource and Referral.
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