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Discovery Early Learning Center shows expansion, seeks citywide preschool coordination
Summary
The board toured and heard a report on Discovery Early Learning Center’s new building, programs for children with individualized education plans, and citywide efforts to coordinate early learning providers and increase kindergarten readiness.
Lucas Jaeger, principal of Discovery Early Learning Center, told the Yakima School Board the site has completed a new building that houses six classrooms, office space and a kitchen and brings about 95% of early-learning staff onto a single campus.
Jaeger described three program strands at Discovery: developmental preschool (children ages 3–5 who qualify for individualized education plans), ECAP (full-day, income-eligible preschool for 4-year-olds that must maintain 18 students per class), and a P–3 collaborative that coordinates early learning through third grade with public…
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