The Learning Experience Partners With USDA to Offer Free Meals to Qualifying Students

The Learning Experience® (TLE®), the nation’s fastest growing early learning academy for children 6 weeks to 5 years old, in Blackwood, NJ, located at 606 Little Gloucester Road, is pleased to announce that it has partnered with the USDA’s Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) to offer free nutritious meals and snacks to qualifying infants and children.

CACFP provides aid to child and adult care institutions and family or group day care homes for the provision of nutritious foods that contribute to the wellness, healthy growth, and development of young children, and the health and wellness of older adults and chronically impaired disabled persons.

CACFP is one of 15 nutrition assistance programs, including the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, and the Summer Food Service Program. These programs touch the lives of one in four Americans each year and, taken together, comprise America’s nutrition safety net.

The CACFP is operated in accordance with USDA policy, which does not permit discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex, or disability in the meal service, admissions policy or use of any Adult Food Program facility. To file a complaint of discrimination, write to the USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C., 20250-9410, or call, toll-free, (866) 632-9992 (Voice), (800) 877-8339 (TDD) or (866) 377-8642 (Relay Voice Users), USDA in an equal opportunity provider and employer.

For more information, please visit http://www.fns.usda.gov/cacfp/child-and-adult-care-food-program.

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About The Learning Experience®

The Learning Experience® (TLE®) is a leading provider of child care and early education services and the nation’s fastest growing early learning academy for children ages six weeks to five years old. TLE® offers full and part-time services for children and supplemental after-school services for school-age children.

In line with the national emphasis placed on early childhood education during the most crucial years of development (6 weeks to age 8), TLE® incorporates programs that advance cognitive, social and physical activity in its preschoolers. TLE®’s innovative curriculum programs, such as L.E.A.P®, a cutting-edge proprietary approach to learning which has more than 95 percent of TLE® children graduating preschool reading at a Kindergarten or greater level, are complemented by enrichment programs crucial to advancing learning and overall balance such as philanthropy, baby yoga, music, soccer, and more.

As of February 2014, TLE® has 221 system-wide centers: 150 operating centers (including 21 corporate-owned and 129 franchise-owned) and 71 centers in various forms of development. TLE® is one of the few childcare operators (either Company owned or through a franchise model) that demonstrated positive same-store comparable growth in 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.

For more information, please visit www.thelearningexperience.com.