Meeting tonight for day care

Tonight, Thursday, a task force set to help save Palouse’s only day care will present its month of research to the Palouse School Board.

The task force is composed of two board members and a host of parents with children in the Little Sprouts Childcare and Early Learning Center.

At 7 p.m. in the Palouse High School library, the school board will hear from parents and board members on the best way to keep the facility going.

Task force member Andra Edwards said her group will present two options: letting the day care be rented to a private owner or run it as a non-profit organization.

The day care has been losing the district approximately $5,000 a month through the school year. The board in April came close to shutting it down. At the behest of parents in Palouse, the board is now considering renting out the facility to a private day care organization. Many parents say they would be forced to take their children to Pullman if the day care closed.