Many of the state school districts have been facing a crisis with a growing shortage of teachers and other school personnel.

Clark County Public Schools has been no exception, but the district has taken an innovative step to solve the problem by creating a standalone daycare program for school employees.

Those behind the Cardinal's Nest program says it's killing two birds with one stone by attracting and retaining teachers and filling an educational gap by preparing more children for kindergarten.

This whole center has just really made a positive impact on a lot of people's lives.

It really came about a commitment from our admin team to recognize the need for quality child care for our staff.

So we were able to help our employees that had preschool children.

But what could we do for our employees that had infants and toddlers?

And so we decided to open up the Cardinals nest.

So the idea was that we would do a stand alone staff daycare.

This is my second year teaching in my first year in Clark County.

When I applied to Clark County and got hired, they had told me that there was going to be a child care center opening.

And we immediately got on the waitlist very high.

We offer childcare for $20 a day, and that's pretax.

It comes out of their paychecks so they don't ever have to worry about making that payment.

Our financial department just deducts it from their paycheck.

The cost of it is really low, so it makes it a lot easier for us to actually be able to afford good childcare.

The cost of this is about 50% less than any other daycare that I've seen.

Most daycares, you can't enroll your child in a week of daycare for less than $150 a week.

So you're already thinking about all of the money that they're saving.

They are also being served a food, breakfast and lunch.

Your employees get essentially a raise a year without actually giving it to them.

And we thought that this would be something that we could offer to our staff or a recruitment and retention incentive.

We knew it wasn't going to be any sort of revenue gain that we were.

We wanted to take this on as an incentive for our staff, and it's just like any other benefits package you have to budget for it and look at other ways to bring in and move things around.

I think that this is a major incentive and as a young mom and a young teacher, if I moved to a different county and they didn't have a daycare, I don't know what I would do.

So this makes me want to stay in Clark.

County, like home from six weeks to three years old and a three year old.

They can transition to preschool and then once they are five, they just transition to kindergarten and they could be served in our school system until they graduate as seniors.

Our first enrollment, we only had three kids, and I think people wanted to see how it was going to go, how it worked out.

And now we have over 20 on our waiting list.

So our plan is to expand to be able to get that waiting list completely taken care of.

This has been the most positive feedback of any employee incentive that Clark County has offered their staff.

This daycare center means a ton to me and the other teachers that I know.

We hope that we continue to attract and retain highly qualified educators and staff because it's not just for teachers, it's about everyone.

And I think that doing this has been a phenomenal step in the right direction.

And we hope that other counties will kind of look at that as a perk for their employees and do the same.

Cardinals Nest, I love that name.

It follows the school calendar and is closed during the summer.

Parrish says the staff, like teachers, still receive a paycheck.

She tells us they hope at some point to expand services to provide child care.

Over the summer.