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Drew McWilliams Bet on a Preschool That Closes at Lunch
A teacher's classroom vision, a real-estate operator's nerve, and one airline napkin became a half-day preschool network. Drew McWilliams built Ivybrook by protecting the constraint that made it unusual.
CEFA Turned Preschool Into a $2.5 Million Franchise - Here Is the Lesson Plan
Natacha Beim Boserup could not persuade existing schools to adopt her early-learning ideas, so she opened one herself. Twenty-eight years later, CEFA packages curriculum, teacher training and a premium school experience into a franchise that costs roughly C$2.5 million to C$3 million to open.
Ivybrook Academy Bet Parents Would Pay More for Less School - Then Took the Half-Day Preschool National
A former first-grade teacher saw preschool treating different children the same. Her answer was a three-hour school day, a hybrid curriculum, and a franchise model now wrestling with the best kind of problem: how to scale something built to feel personal.
Cadence Education Is Building a 350-School Network Without Erasing the Names on the Doors
The private preschool operator has grown from 225 schools in 2020 to 350 in 2026. Its playbook is scale behind the scenes, local identity out front - and a curriculum designed to make care feel like preparation, not parking.