Southside in the News

Southside Child Development Center is prepared to increase capacity and even hire more workers to meet an influx of demand as employees return to their offices.

Southside Child Development Center Owner and Director discusses the crucial role child care facilities play in the economy. As social infrastructure, early childhood education comprises the backbone of the workforce.

Southside Child Development Center one of only 31% of publicly licensed early learning centers to remain open amid the outbreak of the coronavirus.

Southside Child Development Center Owner and Director, Elizabeth Andry, has been named to the board of directors of the Childcare Association of Louisiana.

Baton Rouge area day care centers and preschools are taking steps to remain open and continue serving parents, especially healthcare workers and first responders whose services are more vital than ever during the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. 

Despite the closing of public schools statewide because of coronavirus, operators of some early learning centers said Friday they plan to remain open and are taking extraordinary steps to ensure that classes stay clean for Louisiana's youngest students.

Ahead of the legislative debate, Baton Rouge area lawmakers Wednesday got a chance to tour a child development center to see what children from six weeks to age 5 do all day, including Spanish instruction as early as 18 months.