Daycare crisis on Mercer Island!

This week's Mercer Island Reporter tells the sad tale of the day care center where we send Martha:


The article ends with this comment from one of the Island's renowned experts:

Stowe Sprague, who has one child at Big Bird, also belongs to the Mercer Island Preschool Association.

``The Island has had a really, really wonderful tradition of working as a team,'' Sprague said.

She and a team of other MIPA members are working together to try to continue in that vein to address the larger issue of overall needs for more daycare, preschool and play space on the Island.

``There's practically zero spaces in daycare right now,'' Sprague said. ``Parents are scrambling and there's nothing; there's no openings.''

[that quote wasn't really verbatim: she said "There are practically" and "There are no openings".]