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"As an early education and care community, we are going to have to come together as one to ensure that quality early education is available to all," says Dwayne A. Crompton, executive director of KCMC Child Development Corporation, in Kansas City, Missouri.A not-for-profit agency, KCMC (an anagram for Karing for Children is our Main Concern) Child Development Corporation has been providing innovative answers to that question for 25 years since its founding in 1970 under the old Model Cities program.
Dwayne, a former sixth grade teacher, came to KCMC 18 years ago when Kansas City Model Cities Program was looking for someone to start up a child care program for inner-city families. The Kansas City School District loaned Dwayne to the poverty agency. After Dwayne had completed the job and returned to the school district, the Model Cities child care director resigned and the program offered Dwayne the job.
Dwayne readily accepted. He had decided early on that the preschool years offered the best opportunity to have the greatest impact on children. Dwayne had switched several years earlier to the preschool classroom and, after two years of working with preschoolers and their parents, he was hooked. "I could ...