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Since its inception in 1992, Brightside Academy has been providing quality care to children six weeks to 12 years old. Operating 49 locations in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York, thecompany is committed to strengthening learners and respecting families. Currently, the organization provides early education for 6,700 children on a daily basis. 90% of the families at Brightside Academy are receiving child care subsidies.
At Brightside Academy there are three key pieces to the puzzle: the child, the family, and the staff. There are many everyday heroes. The stories of a center director and a family that attend her center are two of them.
It’s an ordinary day at Brightside Academy in the East Liberty neighbor-hood of Pittsburgh. Anyone who has ever walked in the door of an early education program, knows there is no such thing as an ordinary day, and Raina Kelly is anything but an ordinary Center Director. From the time she was five years old she held court in her grandmother’s back yard in the after-noons. Raina’s friends in the neighbor-hood would listen to her lesson plans. You could say that being a caregiver and educator is what Raina knew to be her destiny and what others ...