Broken Arrow Public Schools uses employee childcare to help recruit and retain teachers

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — Every week at Broken Arrow Public Schools’ Tiny Tigers Learning Center, a new theme fills the classrooms.

“This week is transportation,” said Floating Lead Teacher Danica Nigh. “We’re dipping our monster trucks in paint and running them through a little racetrack that we made here. They had a blast this morning.”

While the children are busy learning through play, district leaders say the program is doing something else behind the scenes — helping attract and keep teachers in the classroom…

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