<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/newsroom/trustees-approve-lifesteps-to-operate-bc3-preschool .html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><pubDate>02/27/2026 11:50:15 AM</pubDate><title>Trustees approve Lifesteps to operate BC3 preschool</title><subtitle>Butler-based nonprofit with state’s top quality ratings to begin on main campus this fall</subtitle><description>(Butler, PA) Butler County Community College trustees have approved for the second time since October a motion that will enable a Butler service provider to operate on the college’s main campus in Butler Township.</description><author/><image-caption>Children are shown Wednesday, March 1, 2023, in a preschool operated by Butler County Community College within the Amy Wise Children’s Creative Learning Center on the college’s main campus in Butler Township. BC3 trustees Thursday approved an agreement to allow Lifesteps, a Butler-based nonprofit organization with five early care and education locations that hold the highest quality rating from the state Department of Education, to succeed BC3 in operating the preschool beginning in August.</image-caption><tags><tag>Amy Wise CCLC</tag><tag>Community</tag><tag>Lifesteps</tag><tag>Preschool</tag></tags><image><img src="/_resources/images/newsroom/2026/bc3-preschool_030123_a.jpg" alt="This is a photograph of children in a preschool on BC3's main campus."/></image></item>