{"id":381558,"date":"2026-08-26T12:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381558\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T12:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:02:10","slug":"leon-county-families-facing-waitlists-for-before-and-after-school-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381558\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon County families facing waitlists for before- and after-school care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTXL) \u2014 Leon County Schools says 10 elementary schools currently have waitlists for its Extended Day Enrichment Program for after-school. A before-school waitlist also exists at 6 schools, including 5 elementary schools and 1 middle school.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH FULL REPORT BELOW:<\/p>\n<p>Leon County families face waitlists for before and after-school care<\/p>\n<p>Brooke Bruner, the LCS Director of Early Learning and Student Development and Support Programs, gave the school board that breakdown during Monday&#8217;s agenda review and workshop meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Bruner says many EDEP programs rely on college students for staffing. With college students now back in town, she says the district expects to be able to staff most programs.<\/p>\n<p>She also says some sites are capped while the district works through quality support plans to make sure there is appropriate and adequate supervision each day.<\/p>\n<p>Bruner says there are plans in place to alleviate the waitlist, but there are no dates set in stone for when that will happen.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram <\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTH TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTXL) \u2014 Leon County Schools says 10 elementary schools currently have waitlists for its Extended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[242,79528,153159,509,3068,153158,3704,39890,232,234,233,153160,562],"class_list":["post-381558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-abc-27","tag-after-school","tag-before-school","tag-big-bend","tag-childcare","tag-edep-program","tag-leon-county-schools","tag-south-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-waitlists","tag-wtxl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}