New Preschool Opens Near Texas A&M
College of Education to provide services.
Facility is open to all families in the area
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — A new — and affordable — preschool will open soon near Texas A&M University to address the shortage of quality programs for young children in the Brazos Valley.
The Collaborative Learning Center will be open Aug. 3 to students 2 years old to 6 years old, and it will be available to all members of the public. It will provide half-day and full-day preschool programming and child care.
The Texas A&M University System and private developers broke ground last year on the facility in College Station. It offers parents the chance to send their children to a state-of-the-art school, while also giving students from the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M the opportunity to work with preschoolers and their teachers.
“Those of us at the Texas A&M System see it as our responsibility to help the community and future Aggies,” said John Sharp, chancellor of the Texas A&M System.
Vicki Gibson, Ph.D., the executive director of the facility, said the school’s teachers will promote moral, intellectual, social, emotional and physical development with their students.
“CLC was designed to become an exemplary model of community cooperation and collaboration that offers research-based, high quality programs,” Dr. Gibson said. “CLC will provide instruction, childcare and onsite professional development that informs and supports parents, local childcare staff and educators and persons working for local agencies that serve children and families.”
To enroll or set up a tour, please visit https://tamuclc.com/registration/ or call (979) 485-1308.
The preschool is housed in a two-story building with approximately 15,000 square feet on the first floor and about 11,000 square feet on the second floor. It will serve up to 263 children. It is open year around (except holidays), and hours are 7:15 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The school is located 1411 Hensel Street in College Station. More information is available at https://tamuclc.com/.
About The Texas A&M University System
The Texas A&M University System is one of the largest systems of higher education in the nation with a budget of $6.3 billion. The System is a statewide network of 11 universities; a comprehensive health science center; eight state agencies, including the Texas Division of Emergency Management; and the RELLIS Campus. The Texas A&M System educates more than 151,000 students and makes more than 22 million additional educational contacts through service and outreach programs each year. System-wide, research and development expenditures exceeded $1 billion in FY 2019 and helped drive the state’s economy.
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