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When a Crack House Becomes an Early Childhood Center

Two male high school students shake hands in front of Oyler Community Learning Center, a community school in Cincinnati.

When a Crack House Becomes an Early Childhood Center

In the Lower Price Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, the community has transformed an abandoned row house that served as a crack house into a renovated early childhood center that supports the neighborhood’s youngest residents. This center, connected to the Oyler Community Learning Center, a Pre-K-12 school building, is part of Cincinnati Public Schools’ district-wide community school strategy. In September, IEL published a Huffington Post Blog on this transformation, and the school is the center of a new documentary, Oyler: One School, One YearREAD MORE…