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Sep. 20, 2023

Catherine Hershey Schools for Early Learning Celebrates Grand Opening of First Early Childhood Education Center

 HERSHEY, Pa. – September 20, 2023 – Today, Catherine Hershey Schools for Early Learning (CHS), a subsidiary of Milton Hershey School (MHS), celebrated the opening of its first Early Childhood...

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Early Childhood Resource Center - Lobby View
Oct. 01, 2020

ABC27: Milton Hershey School Files Petition for Permission to Expand to Include Early Childhood Education

In a recent news story, ABC27 / WHTM in Harrisburg shared information about the announcement of plans for the Early Childhood Education Initiative (ECE Initiative). Throughout the more than 110-year history...

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Sep. 30, 2020

PennLive: Milton Hershey School has $350 Million Plan to Build Free Early Learning Centers for At-Risk Pa. Children

Today, PennLive published a story detailing Milton Hershey School and the Hershey Trust Company’s plans for the Early Childhood Education initiative (ECE Initiative). The Initiative will initially consist of up to...

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Early Childhood Resource Center - Lobby View
Sep. 30, 2020

Milton Hershey School, Hershey Trust Company Seek to Expand Impact and Reach Through New Cost-Free Early Childhood Education Initiative

Milton Hershey School and the Hershey Trust Company today filed a petition in the Orphans’ Court Division of the Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas requesting authorization to develop and...

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Sep. 30, 2020

Early Childhood Education Fact Sheet

The ECE Initiative is an early childhood educational plan to develop initially up to six (6) cost-free Early Childhood Resource Centers (ECRCs) operated through separate entities affiliated with MHS for children from birth to age 5 from economically disadvantaged and at-risk backgrounds.

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Catherine Hershey Schools for Early Learning are subsidiaries of Milton Hershey School and will be staffed and operated independently of the Milton Hershey School core model.

Catherine Hershey Schools for Early Learning admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.

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