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Teacher and ECE Partnerships in Full Day Learning
Partnerships are what makes it all work; Proponents of all-day care say kids benefit when teachers and early childhood educators co-operate, Matthew Pearson reports.
“Daycares worry about ‘destabilization’
“Kindergarten changes jeopardize the system: Deans” The Ottawa Citizen reports “Concern about steep fee increases and the possible closure of child-care centres is mounting across the province as the clock ticks toward the September implementation of Ontario’s new all-day kindergarten.
‘Quarrelsome’ Liberals don’t fracture party’s vision: Ignatieff
National Post reports, TORONTO — Michael Ignatieff fired back at accusations of a divided Liberal party Monday night, calling it a large “quarrelsome, argumentative” family — not without its characters — but adding that divisions in the party don’t change the Liberals’ position as “progressive centre of Canada.”
Spring Update 2010
__________________________________________________________________________ Provincial Budget 2010 contains 63.5 million in core child care funding After a spectacular amount of pressure from the community (11,000 names on the OCBCC petition) Premier McGuinty has committed $63.5 million in permanent funding in Ontario’s 2010 budget.
News From Queen’s Park
In today’s news – Bill 242 passes third reading at Queen’s Park. Transition funding for child care in Ontario was announced. As well, licensed child care was moved to the new early years division.
CTV Toronto “Ontario Parents Rally for more child care funding”
Parents rally for more child care funding at Queen’s Park “…dozens of children and their parents delivered giant beach balls to Premier Dalton McGuinty, their way of telling him that “the ball is in his court” when it comes to child care.”
CITY BUDGET will see PARENT CHILD CARE FEES SKYROCKET! Budget Schedule 2010 – KEY DATES
February 16 STAFF Introduce Operating Budget February 25 Operating Budget – Councillor Hearings (Council Chambers) TCBCC will monitor this meeting. March 1 and March 2 Deputations: Council Chamber, March 1 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. March 2 1:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. **We need to make Deputations – Parents and Directors can speak to the [...]
School daycares face rent hike – Parent fees could rise by $4 per day
Laurie Monsebraaten Social Justice Reporter Toronto parents Sarah Fittings and Mykola Jemetz struggle to pay annual daycare fees of more than $30,000 for their 5-year-old daughter and 3-year-old twin boys. So a city budget proposal that advocates say would add as much as $80 per child per month for parents in Toronto’s 373 school-based child [...]
We Urge the City: Do NOT CUT any $$$s from CHILD CARE!
Our City’s Finance’s are in a critical state as a result of underfunding from the Province in many areas. The City’s Budget Committee has instructed staff in ALL Departments to find 5% savings in their 2010 budgets. . . In the City’s Operating Budget (released on February 16), the Children’s Services Budget includes a recommendation [...]