UC Merced to pull curtain back today on new preschool

Merced Sun-Star Article

June 4, 2009
By Danielle Gaines

Tiny chairs clustered around tiny tables.

Piles of pinecones and other learning tools for young children are scattered about.

And a new garden, named in honor of first lady Michelle Obama, will soon be tilled.

But the place -- the sparkling new UC Merced Childhood Education Center -- doesn't have that lived-in feel. Yet.

Today, the sustainably built modular schoolhouse, which will serve 80 pre-kindergarten children beginning this fall, will open to the public for the first time with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house...

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