Kidango Cesar Chavez Early Learning Center
2000 Kammerer Avenue, San Jose, CA 95116 · Santa Clara County
ClosedChild care center (preschool)
This center is closed. California lists its license as closed as of Sep 23, 2025. Its state inspection history is shown below.
Kidango Cesar Chavez Early Learning Center was a licensed child care center in San Jose, CA, licensed for up to 96 children. Its license closed around September 2025. Since February 2021, the state inspected it 1 time and investigated 2 complaints, 1 substantiated, and issued 4 citations, 1 of them Type A. Its inspection history is kept here for reference.
Inspection history
1Type A citations
3Type B citations
1Inspections
1 of 2Complaints substantiated
Every state visit
Citation issuedNo citationTop row: inspections · bottom row: complaint investigations and other visits
What inspectors cited most
Caregiver conduct2
Supervision1
Building & playground safety1
Citations, newest first
Type AAug 8, 2024Case management visit (incident)Supervision
Care and supervision §101229(a)(1)
On 08/02/24, a child (C1) was left unattended in the classroom when a teacher (T1) brought the children to the bathroom. This poses an immediate risk to the health, safety, and personal rights of children in care. 8 An immediate civil penalty of $500 was assessed.
Plan of correction due Aug 9, 2024
Type BApr 19, 2024Case management visit (incident)Caregiver conduct
Personal rights §101223(a)(2)
Based on interviews and file review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above. The staff, S!, used inappropriate languages in front of children which posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Plan of correction due Apr 26, 2024
Type BJul 13, 2023Complaint investigationCaregiver conduct
Personal rights §101223(a)(3)
Personal Rights(a)(3)The licensee shall ensure that each child is accorded the following personal rights:To be free from corporal or unusual punishment, infliction of pain, humiliation,... or other actions of a punitive nature...This requirement was not met as evidence by: 1 Director stated that will she will submit their Plan of Action by the POC date. Based on interviews, On June 14,2023, C1 pulled S1's hair while out in the playground, and in the process of staff intervening and redirecting C1's hand from pulling S1's hair, C1 received injuries to both left and right hand and on both wrists. This poses a risk to the health, safety, and personal rights of children in care. 8
Plan of correction due Jul 27, 2023
Type BJul 13, 2023Case management visit (lead testing/exceedance)Building & playground safety
Lead in drinking water §101700.3(b)(1)
Facility repaired and resampled ALE outlets on 05/03/2023 and submitted proof of non-ALE results for all outlets. Lead testing conducted on 11/11/2022 showed ALE on 17 outlets in the facility. This posed a potential risk to children in care.
Plan of correction due Jul 14, 2023
Complaint investigations
Not substantiatedDec 12, 2024Complaint investigationreceived Oct 2, 2024
The state did not substantiate this complaint, so its allegations are not shown.
SubstantiatedJul 13, 2023Complaint investigationreceived Jun 20, 2023
Substantiated allegation:
1. Staff member caused injuries to daycare child
1 citation issued during this investigation, listed under Citations.
About this center
Licensed capacity96 children
License typeChild care center (preschool)
License statusClosed
Licensed sinceMar 22, 2023
ClosedSep 23, 2025
LicenseeKidango INC.
Last administratorJosefina Garcia Marquez
State facility #434417059
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Citations are quoted from California Department of Social Services inspection and complaint reports. Type A citations are the state’s most serious category (an immediate risk to children’s health, safety or personal rights); Type B citations are a potential risk. A citation is a finding about one rule, not a judgment about a center overall. Complaint allegations appear here only when the state substantiated them.
To read the full state reports, search facility number 434417059 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 2, 2026.