The Arlington ISD is expanding its community partnership effort to reach children in full-time child care by adding 14 new prekindergarten classes to seven local day care centers.

Highly qualified and fully certified AISD teachers will be onsite at these locations, just as they are at the 15 existing sites throughout Arlington, to teach the same three-hour day and curriculum as what is provided at AISD campuses. Prekindergarten is designed as an early learning program to prepare children for kindergarten who are identified as being at risk.

Prekindergarten is free for those who qualify based on income, language or homelessness, children of active military personnel or those injured or killed in action, and those who are or have been in conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services. If a child does not qualify under those conditions, a tuition-based program is available for all children. CCMS is accepted at most childcare locations.

The following child care locations are new to this partnership: Ameen Montessori, Bambino Palace Montessori, Bizzy Kids, Horizon Learning Center, Lilian's Learning Center, Salvation Army YET Center and Upbringing in a Better Way.

For more information about the district's prekindergarten program, including a list of all participating day care centers, visit www.aisd.net/aisd/pk.