Charlotte · Licensed center
Alliance Center For Education-University
- Medium center, licensed for 65 children.
- Run by a nonprofit. A board oversees it, and there are no owners taking profit.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 2 of its 6 licensing inspections since March 2025.
Of the 81 Charlotte-area centers with 6 licensing inspections, 17% had rules cited at 2 of them, as this center did. 11% had rules cited at all 6, 10% at none.
Licensing inspections
Mar 25, 20261 citation
“Parent's medication authorization did not include required information. A child's medication authorization for did not include the parent's signature.”
Violation corrected during visit
May 8, 20251 citation
“Menus for all meals and snacks were not current or posted where easily seen by parents and cook. A posted menu was not updated with the current information regarding a substitution made for the fruit option on menu.”
Violation corrected during visit
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State record — North Carolina DCDEE
- Last visit
- March 25, 2026
- On file
- 6 visits since March 2025 — 4 cited nothing, 2 of those unannounced
- Fixed?
- All 2 record a correction, in the licensor’s own words.
- Most serious
- North Carolina DCDEE does not publish a severity level for a citation, so there is no most-serious to name.
North Carolina DCDEE describes every citation in the licensor’s own words and records the correction in that same text — the only one of the six states that publishes whether a violation was fixed. It attaches no rule number and no report document.
Mar 2026 Unannounced visit 1 finding
Unannounced visit · March 25, 2026
Parent's medication authorization did not include required information. A child's medication authorization for did not include the parent's signature.
Violation corrected during visit
DCDEE facility lookup On that page, enter license number 60004391 in the License Number box, choose Search and open the result; the record is listed under Visits.
May 2025 Unannounced visit 1 finding
Unannounced visit · May 8, 2025
Menus for all meals and snacks were not current or posted where easily seen by parents and cook. A posted menu was not updated with the current information regarding a substitution made for the fruit option on menu.
Violation corrected during visit
DCDEE facility lookup On that page, enter license number 60004391 in the License Number box, choose Search and open the result; the record is listed under Visits.
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Openings, child care subsidies, cost, hours and late pickup, teaching approach, a typical day, and sick and biting policies aren’t on this page.
Who cares for your child
Jared Keaton (Chief Executive Officer) since 1998, Brian Luckadoo (Chief Financial Officer) since 2007 and Elisha Wilson (Early Childhood Education Director), 25 years in early childhood.
Of 745 Charlotte-area providers, 30 publish how long a named staff member has been there; the longest tenure at each of those has a median of 22 years.
Details
- Website
- ac4ed.org
- Address
- 6442 N. Tryon Street
- License
- 60004391, active
- Quality program
- Five Star License
- Ages they serve
- birth to 4 years old
- Established
- 1940
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Who cares for your child
State record
From North Carolina DCDEE’s published reports, last checked October 10, 2026.
Details
- Phone, Address, License, Quality program — Checked July 2026 ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov. To check it, open ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/childcaresearch, enter licence 60004391 under License Number, and open the result.
- Website — Checked July 2026 ac4ed.org
- Ages they serve — Checked July 2026 ac4ed.org
- Established — Checked July 2026 ac4ed.org
- Who runs it — Checked September 2026 ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov. To check it, open ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/childcaresearch, enter licence 60004391 under License Number, open the result and expand Owner Information: the licensee is listed as Primary Owner.
Medium means the middle half of Charlotte-area’s 591 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 51 to 162 children. Small is 11 to 50; large is 163 to 528.