“If all-day kindergarten is combined with fee-based before- and after-school child care, it certainly will make it easier for many parents to work and reduce their child-care costs.
This is why McGuinty’s decision to begin implementing full-day kindergarten next September is the right move, even in the context of a $24.7 billion provincial deficit.”
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Catherine Porter, Toronto Star columnist
Her point of view of the Pascal report, the full year education and care program..
” Parents, like Catherine Porter, should speak out and say that’s what they want ..”
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Early Childhood Educators expected to work alongside teachers in the classroom – at $19.48 an hour, or roughly $30,000 per school year.
At such a low salary, the fear is the early childhood educators will be seen as mere assistants rather than full partners.
Upcoming bulletin:
- Deals with the question of ECE wages and benefits.
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Imagine! Having Early Childhood Learning & Resources in one location…
” Board chairman John Campbell said an all-kindergarten site could be a great place to also locate child care, a literacy and parenting centre, “and all of those social outreach agencies that could operate out of a school like that.”
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Full-day kindergarten is off to a “rough start” because the province is ignoring research on what makes it work best, says a new report from early childhood experts who studied a similar successful program in Toronto
Among the problems researchers have identified:
- Wages of ECE, at $19. 48/hour. At such a low salary, the fear is the early childhood educators will be seen as mere assistants rather than full partners.
- Lack of summer programs for children.
- Lack of parent involvement.
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Education experts conclude that the Ministry of Education’s earliest plans for the provincial program contain “design flaws” including insufficient allocations for wages.
” The report notes that the province’s current allocations for wages mean that many experienced early childhood educators would make about $30,000 a year and would have to take a pay cut in order to start teaching for the Early Learning Program. This could lead to a diminished learning environment and reduced parental engagement”, said Jane Bertrand (a professor at the School of Early Childhood at George Brown College, and co-author of the report.)
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They are among some 637,000 children – or almost one in 10 Canadian kids – living in poverty.
That’s down slightly from 11.9 per cent, or 792,000 children who were poor in 1989, says Campaign 2000, a national coalition that has been tracking the lack of progress on the federal promise for years.
In Ontario, child poverty sits at 9.4 per cent – or 257,000 kids – about the same as 20 years ago.
Ontario’s poverty reduction plan aims to cut child poverty by 25 per cent, or 90,000 children, by 2013.
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Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care
Implementing Early Learning Bulletin #1
* Site Selection
* Concerns about Early Learning and Child Care Programs
* How Municipalities Can Ensure Child Care Programs Stay Viable
» Continue reading “Implementing Early Learning: Bulletin #1″
How refreshing! The Ministry of Education has lots of useful information on their website. In general all Ministry of Education documents can be found at: http://calendar.edu.gov.on.ca/ReportingCalendar.htm (then click on Ministry memo summary) » Continue reading “Ministry of Education Memos Available on the Web”
OMSSA’s latest report, Sustaining the Future: What is at stake for families and children in Ontario.
The report offers a compelling analysis of these benefits, which have included:
- More than 7,600 children who have received child care fee subsidies annually
- Almost 1,300 children who have received special needs resourcing support, provided by 100 staff annually
- More than 5,200 people who have received wage subsidies annually to work in the early learning and child care sector
- Almost $5 million that has been spent annually for special needs resourcing, school readiness programs, and other important community initiatives
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