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Article: Day care isn't child's play
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 5, 2009
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One of Chicago's best child care centers stands between vacant lots and boarded-up buildings on a bleak stretch of Ogden Avenue in North Lawndale.
The Carole Robertson Center for Learning, headquartered at 3701 W. Ogden, was singled out by the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services as an example of child care moving far beyond minimum licensing regulations. It offers low-income children some of the best programs the city has to offer, like Wiggleworms by the Old Town School of Folk Music.
Also inside the bright yellow complex of airy classrooms and grassy playgrounds are enviable ratios of one caregiver for every two infants, highly qualified staff motivated to pursue higher ...