Charlotte · Licensed center
Alliance Center For Education-University
At a glance
- Medium center, licensed for 65 children.
- Run by a nonprofit. A board oversees it, and there are no owners taking profit.
What to know
The license is the range the state allows. It does not say which ages have openings.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 2 of its 6 licensing inspections since March 2025.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
Mar 25, 20261 citation
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
- Sep 10, 2025Nothing cited
- Aug 12, 2025Nothing cited
May 8, 20251 citation
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
- Apr 2, 2025Nothing cited
- Mar 25, 2025Nothing cited
The state cited rules at 2 of this center's 6 inspections. Most Charlotte-area centers inspected 6 times had more: 65% of 79 had rules cited at 3 or more.
How all 79 Charlotte-area centers inspected 6 times compare
Of the 79 Charlotte-area centers the state inspected 6 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- None10%
- 1 of 65%
- 2 of 620%This center
- 3 of 619%
- 4 of 620%
- 5 of 615%
- All 610%
Read every record and the state’s reports
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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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.
28 years · Charlotte-area median 22, among 32 that publish
Details
- Phone
- (704) 266-8215
- Address
- 6442 N. Tryon Street, Charlotte, 28213
- License
- 60004391
- Quality program
- Five Star License
- Established
- 1940
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Who cares for your child
State record
From North Carolina DCDEE’s published reports, last checked November 8, 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 October 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 605 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 51 to 162 children. Small is 11 to 50; large is 163 to 528.