I live in Burnsville and know of a few good places.
I've heard good things about Kindercare. But I have no experiance with them directly.
Especially for Children in Eagan my daughter did wonderfully at.
Dist.191 has daycare at Diamond Head. Burnsville Parkway and Nicollet and is real good. It's run through the school district. They do infants and up... My daugher actually uses them at her school's location for before/after school care and we love it.
I've heard and seen for myself how horrible New Horizon is. As a parent and a professional photographer who use to do preschool photo's in daycares. As a parent I had some major major problems. My daughter was ignored when she was arrived at daycare,turnover rate was horrible, they had pop cans in reach of infant/toddlers. I just stopped in several times and found my daughter and her entire classroom unsupervised without a sole in sight for atleast 5min. My daughter was always bitten or hurt but noone ever noticed or knew how it happened. The New Horizon at the Mall of America while photographing that site I saw a child leave the center and noone noticed, I'm glad I did. They were just on the news for having 2 four year olds at one location leave the center during nap time and were found by the police at the Cub Foods across the street.While photographing their Minnetonka location I was extremely disturbed that the preschool class at recess had found a dead mouse and were playing with it, the teacher didnt' seem to care. I could go on and on..... As a parent when I tried to go above our daycare director and contact the corporate office I got absolutely no where and they were extremely unprofessional and didn't care.