Children's Choice and MGM Grand to Build Child Development Center in Las Vegas.

Business Editors

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2001

Children's Choice Learning Centers, Inc. and Las Vegas' MGM Grand Hotel and Casino today announced an agreement to develop an on-site child development center for MGM Grand's 8,000 "cast members" (employees). Construction of the $4 million, 21,000-square-foot facility is scheduled to be completed in August 2001. The child care facility will have a licensing capacity of 330 children per shift.

Children's Choice Learning Centers offers 24-hour, 365-day developmentally appropriate educational programs for children six weeks to 12 years of age, including sick care (Sniffles & Snuggles(R)), back-up care, summer camp and holiday care during school calendar breaks. Sniffles & Snuggles(R) is a special get-well center for children who are mildly ill, administered under a registered nurse or nurse's aide and is licensed for up to 14 children at one time. The Center and its services will be available to cast members of MGM Grand and employees of New York-New York Hotel and Casino.

"MGM Grand recognizes and is responding to our cast members' needs for child care to help balance their non-traditional work schedules and family life," said Cynthia Kiser Murphey, senior vice president of human resources for MGM MIRAGE(TM)."

"Our partnership with MGM Grand continues the Children's Choice commitment to provide high quality `Child Care That Is Always There(R),' along with our commitment to raising the bar of quality child care in Las Vegas. This will be the first free-standing, employee child development center located on the Las Vegas Strip," said Leslie Wulf, founder, president and CEO of Children's Choice Learning Centers, Inc.

"We've also established a new foundation to provide scholarships for families with financial need so their children can participate in the development center," said William Hornbuckle, president and COO of MGM Grand. "The greatest asset we have as a company are our cast members, and there is no greater investment we can make than to help our cast members support their families."

MGM Grand, "The City of Entertainment," is a wholly owned subsidiary of MGM MIRAGE (TM). The MGM Grand resort features 5,034 guest rooms and suites, a state-of-the-art gaming complex, world-class entertainment venues and the $100 million Conference Center for meetings/conventions centrally located on the Las Vegas Strip.

Children's Choice Learning Centers, Inc., based in Dallas, Texas, is a national leader in providing quality child care around-the-clock to accommodate non-traditional work schedules in various industries including gaming/entertainment, healthcare, telecommunications and manufacturing. Children's Choice partners include Station Casino, Isle of Capri Casino, MGM Grand, Horseshoe Casinos, HCA Healthcare, Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) and APL Labs. Children's Choice is continuing its national expansion of non-traditional child care centers with three more opening in Las Vegas before spring and new centers coming in 2001 to Texas, Arizona, Delaware, California, Ohio, Virginia, Mississippi, Minnesota and Florida. For more information, call [phone] or visit the Children's Choice site: www.childchoice.com.