A new day care and early learning center is opening in southeast Rockford with a focus on preparing children for classroom-ready settings. The facility takes over a space formerly occupied by a day care that abruptly closed more than a year ago.
Amanda and Bryan Amezquita are opening the center together. Amanda is a former teacher with 15 years of experience in the Rockford Public School system. She is transitioning from the classroom to help lead the facility, which she describes as an academy designed to get children ready for elementary school.
Amezquita, who spent 15 years as a teacher in Rockford Public Schools, said she is bringing her classroom experience to the new facility. She intends for the center to be viewed as a school environment rather than a standard day care…