{"id":19839,"date":"2026-02-16T08:25:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T13:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/?p=19839"},"modified":"2026-02-18T13:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:55:15","slug":"reminder-child-care-for-purdue-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/2026\/Q1\/reminder-child-care-for-purdue-families","title":{"rendered":"Reminder: Child care in West Lafayette community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Purdue\u2019s College of Health and Human Sciences\u00a0operates\u00a0the Ben and Maxine Miller Child Development Laboratory School.\u00a0Outside providers\u00a0operate\u00a0other centers in the community, including Early Learning Indiana, which\u00a0operates\u00a0the Patty\u00a0Jischke\u00a0Center and the Early Care and Education Center\u00a0(ECEC), both locations subsidized by the university through buildings and financial assistance.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>With recent changes to the\u00a0child\u00a0care\u00a0market across Indiana, Early Learning Indiana\u00a0(ELI)\u00a0announced that it would merge the ECEC into the\u00a0Jischke\u00a0Center, due to a 40% drop in demand\u00a0of\u00a0their centers and a persistent 25% vacancy rate. ELI had\u00a0attempted\u00a0to fill spots through the wait list but had not been able to fill the open spots. All current families who want a seat at the\u00a0consolidated\u00a0center will have one, and there is also capacity at the Jischke Center for additional children.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Multiple operators in the state of Indiana may be interested in the West Lafayette market. Because of the importance of\u00a0child care\u00a0to the university community, the\u00a0university has chosen to continue to subsidize an operator that wishes to enter the market in the current ECEC building. A meeting by\u00a0the interested\u00a0families will soon be scheduled to quantify market demand and attract\u00a0additional\u00a0operators.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[359],"tags":[],"department":[],"source":[334],"purdue_today_topic":[],"coauthors":[10],"class_list":["post-19839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff","source-purdue-today"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19839"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19927,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19839\/revisions\/19927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19839"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=19839"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=19839"},{"taxonomy":"purdue_today_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/purdue_today_topic?post=19839"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}