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BYLEECOGHLAN
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Camille Harris began the Child Care and Learning Center • in Rappahannock County nearly 23 years ago, as non-profit organization. It started as a hippie alternative school and grew into one of 92 schools accredited with early childhood programs by the National Academy of Early Childhood Programs in Virginia.
In order to be accredited, CCLC had to undergo a comprehensive process of internal self study, invite external professional review to verify compliance with the academy’s criteria, and be found to be in substantial compliance with the criteria.
The goal of CCLC is to provide a safe and nurturing environment while promoting the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development of young children.
CCLC began its operations in 1976 in the basement of what is now Doug Baumgardner’s office in Washington. From the time of it’s founding through the present, the center has been the only permanent child care facility in the county. From 1978 to 1986, the center conducted operations in a farmhouse down Tiger Valley Road. And in May of 1986, the center moved into its current facility on U.S. 211 to the left of the gun shop in Washington, Va.
Sharp recalls, “We became one of the first schools with infant care, in ‘78, when it was unheard of. We are the only nationally credited program in a ten county radius. We have a low teacher to student ratio.”
Most for-profit schools are not accredited because they cannot afford the teachers to
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