Courtesy of Julie Clark
- After three decades, Julie Clark recently sold CAST Preschool and Childcare Center in Connecticut.
- She talked to Insider about the cost of early-childhood education and childcare.
- Clark wishes she could've paid the educators at the center more.
Julie Clark, the cofounder of the CAST Preschool and Childcare Center in Woodbury, Connecticut, said her "goal was really to form a community, not just a school."
In fact, she said, some of her students' parents attended the center when they were kids.
After more than 30 years, Clark sold her childcare center this past summer. Clark, 68, said she will continue working as a consultant until the end of December.
"I've become very involved in advocacy for early childhood, and I would like to stay involved with that, but I will not be going to work anywhere," Clark told Insider.