This article was originally published in The 19th.
The trouble at the Sprout School started when staff began to turn over faster than they could be replaced. Twenty-five full- and part-time teachers dwindled to 10, leaving behind empty spots on the bulletin board by the school entrance that was once full of smiling faces.
“Teachers were disappearing and we weren’t understanding why,” said Chloe Haynes, a small business owner whose two sons attend the childcare center at the Second Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Virginia…