Child Care Micro-Centers Are Filling Empty Classrooms

Child Care Micro-Centers Are Filling Empty Classrooms

This story first appeared at The 74, a nonprofit news site covering education.  Midway between Nashville and Atlanta, the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, makes original use of a resource that other communities possess in abundance but fail to capitalize on: empty classrooms in public schools. Arising two decades ago from one principal’s creative approach, micro-centers are child care centers for the children of school teachers and other staff. T…