“Big-box child care is setting up shop in Canada and critics worry it will undermine quality, scuttle chances for a national daycare program and thwart provincial plans for all-day kindergarten.” » Continue reading “Toronto Star: “All-day kindergarten under threat?””
Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA ADVISORY JANUARY 25, 2010
Public meeting to discuss proposed shutdown of city child care centres » Continue reading “Media Release: Public Meeting to Discuss Closure of Windsor’s City Child Care Centres”
“The union representing most of the 118 workers whose daycare positions will disappear if council approves a recommendation to close all nine city-operated centres is vowing to fight the measure, as are parents of affected children.The city-run daycares, two of which are in the county but are also staffed by city workers, are operating at a capacity of less than 50 per cent, said Ronna Warsh, the city’s community health and development commissioner. Enrolments were down 24 per cent at the conclusion of the 15-week CUPE strike, the report says.” » Continue reading “The Windsor Star: “CUPE, parent’s prepare to fight Windsor daycare closings””
“A chain of day-care centres in Edmonton and Calgary could be the first in Canada to trade on the stock market as their Texasbased owner is now seeking a listing on the TSX Venture Exchange.” » Continue reading “Edmonton Journal: “Caring for kids goes corporate””
Just one year ago, the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care was touring Ontario sounding the alarm on for-profit, corporate child care. In community after community, we signed petitions, held community meetings and warned that early learning and child care services do not belong on the stock exchange. » Continue reading “Calgary Herald: “Alberta day-cares could be first in Canada to trade on stock market”
What’s New:
Friday, March 5, 12:00 noon:
“March for Windsor’s Kids”, click here for event flyer
Wednesday, February 10th at 7:00 p.m.
Public Meeting: The Campaign To Keep Our City Centres Isn’t Over
All Saints Church, 330 City Hall Square West
For more information call the Stop The Cuts Hotline at 519-965-2634
To see the flyer, click here.
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010:
Windsor City Council to close all municipal child care centres by September 1
On Monday night, Windsor City council voted 5-3 to close 7 city-operated child care centres and 2 satellite sites by September 1, 2010. City council ignored a unanimous deferral request of one month from county council.
» Continue reading “Have a Heart: Save Windsor’s Child Care Centres!”
[Your address / Date]
Dear MPP –
As a parent I was really concerned to learn that thousands of child care subsidies, and the stability of our entire child care system is at risk if the Ontario Government does not include funding for child care in its next budget. Cuts to child care subsidies could begin as soon as this July. This hits low income parents hardest who can’t work or look for work without affordable secure child care for their children.
But all parents with children in regulated child cares could be affected – the loss of subsidized spaces will mean child care centres will have empty spaces they can’t fill. Then they would have to lay off staff and increase parent fees. Many child care centres would close within months. We need the Ontario government to promise now to invest the funds needed to save subsidized child care spaces across the province.
Yours sincerely,
[your name]
cc. Finance Minister Dwight Duncan, dduncan.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org
Dear Premier McGuinty,
In 2006 budget, the your government allocated $63.5 million for child care for each of the next four years. Each year since $63.5 million went to support our vital child care services.
If the Province does not continue this funding in the 2010 Provincial budget, Municipalities will have no option but to make dramatic cuts to child care subsidies, destabilizing the entire system.
» Continue reading “Take Action! Send a message to Premier McGuinty!”
Comments off
Toronto Star Editorial: Sensible changes for kindergarten
“Are there still kinks to be worked out? Absolutely. This is a major change that involves hiring an additional 3,800 teachers and 20,000 early childhood educators, doubling what is now a half-day school program for 4- and 5-year-olds and integrating before- and after-school child care into thousands of schools.”
Toronto Star: Hard choices as parents ponder full-day program
“Parents who want a half-day kindergarten program might have to move their child to another school if the local one is among those offering full-day instruction.”
Michelle Despault, spokeswoman for Education Minister Kathleen Wynne, said “if a parent did make a decision to withdraw their child from the full-day program for half a day, they would need to understand that they will not receive the full benefits of the full-day program – they may miss out on some of the curriculum.”
» Continue reading ““School boards across Ontario are expecting a deluge of applications””
