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ATLANTA, April 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Primrose Schools, the leader in high-quality early education and care, celebrated the opening of its 450
th school on April 29, kicking off a busy year of expansion for the company in the greater Washington metropolitan area. Throughout 2021, five fully accredited Primrose schools are scheduled to open across D.C., Northern Virginia and Maryland – a 60 percent increase in the D.C. metropolitan market – as the critical need for high-quality early education and care continues post-pandemic and the daycare industry rebounds with the help of recent government support.
Franchise Owners Saniya Dhala and Zahra Isani, Primrose Schools CEO Jo Kirchner, and Arlington County Board Vice-Chair Katie Cristol cut the ribbon for Primrose School of Arlington.
Arlington has long had a childcare shortage problem. During the pandemic, strangely, that helped its programs survive.
Although childcare programs across the nation have shuttered due to the coronavirus, in Arlington, only three licensed programs have closed, said County Board member and childcare advocate Katie Cristol. One is reopening in a new location better equipped for social-distancing, while two others closed permanently (one of those closures was virus-related).
“The good news is, what has been one of the biggest challenges of the landscape of Arlington has been an asset,” she said, adding that demand remained strong locally, buoying Arlington’s centers, “most of which have faired fairly well.”