{"schema_version":"secwatch.filing_event.v1","accession":"0001193125-26-412502","form_type":"8-K","ticker":"KLC","cik":"0001873529","company_name":"KinderCare Learning Companies, Inc.","filed_at":"2026-10-02T20:41:40+00:00","discovered_at":"2026-10-02T20:43:00.272039+00:00","generated_at":"2026-10-12T14:40:03.661121+00:00","sec_items":["5.02","9.01"],"event_type":"leadership","sentiment":"neutral","materiality_score":0.25,"calibrated_materiality_score":0.25,"confidence":"high","headline":"KinderCare director Mike Nuzzo resigns; David Barse to chair Audit Committee, Preston Grasty rejoins board","bullets":["Mike Nuzzo resigned from the Board effective Sept. 29, 2026; he also left the Audit and Compensation Committees, citing other personal and professional commitments, not any disagreement.","David Barse, a director since Aug. 3, 2026, was named Audit Committee chair and a Compensation Committee member; the Board deems him an audit committee financial expert.","Preston Grasty, 36, Senior Investment Leader at Partners Group since 2018, rejoins as a Class II director until the 2029 annual meeting and joins the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.","Grasty is a PG Stockholders' Designee under the Oct. 8, 2024 Stockholders Agreement; he will not receive director compensation and previously served on the board from Sept. 2024 to June 2025.","CEO Tom Wyatt thanked Nuzzo for his service and welcomed Grasty back; changes were announced in a press release dated Oct. 2, 2026."],"urls":{"canonical":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-26-412502","json":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-26-412502.json","markdown":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-26-412502.md","text":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-26-412502.txt","edgar_index":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1873529/000119312526412502/0001193125-26-412502-index.htm","edgar_primary_document":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1873529/000119312526412502/d120154d8k.htm"},"model":{"generated_by":"deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2","generated_at":"2026-10-12T14:40:03.661121+00:00"},"review":{"review_status":"machine_generated","human_reviewed":false,"corrected":false,"correction_note":null,"correction_timestamp":null,"superseded_by":null,"related_filings":[]},"source_grounded_claims":[],"license":"Source filings: public domain (SEC EDGAR). Summaries (headline + bullets): CC-BY-4.0; attribute https://secwatch.observer"}