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Pre-School is Good for You – An Interview with Dr. Edward Melhuish
Source: CBC, May 2, 2013
Description: "Rachel Cave talks with British Academic Edward Melhuish about research on preschool education."
MB: Budget 2013 Invests in More Child Care Spaces to Help Manitoba Families: Premier
Source: Government of Manitoba, May 1, 2013
Excerpt: "Budget 2013 will give families better access to quality child care by opening up to 1,000 new spaces over the next year, Premier Greg Selinger announced today. "Our government is focused on what matters most to Manitoba families and for growing families that includes better access to good quality child care," said Selinger. "More child care spaces will support parents while they are at work and help prepare young children to succeed at school, while also creating jobs for qualified early childhood educators across the province.""
ON: Ontario Budget: Child Care and Anti-Poverty Advocates Cheer Liberal-NDP Deal
Source: The Toronto Star, April 30, 2013
Excerpt: "The Liberals added $242 million over three years to help stabilize the province’s struggling child care sector as 4- and 5-year-olds move into all-day kindergarten. They also boosted both welfare and disability benefits by 1 per cent at a cost of $55 million. NDP Leader Andrea Horwath had originally asked for just disability rates to increase by 1 per cent."
MB: Budget 2013: Building and Improving Manitoba Schools
Source: Government of Manitoba, April 30, 2013
Excerpt: "To meet the needs of families in the growing Waverley West neighbourhood, the province will build an early learning to Grade 8 school in the area that will serve families in this community for years to come, Premier Greg Selinger announced today."
QC: Merits of Kindergarten for 4-Year-Olds Debated in National Assembly
Source: The Montreal Gazette, April 30, 2013
Excerpt: "Yolande Brunelle, at the time principal of École Saint-Zotique in Montréal’s Saint-Henri district, told a Quebec National Assembly committee Tuesday she started her school’s kindergarten for 4-year-olds program in 2009 to give children in disadvantaged areas a head start in school. The committee is hearing briefs on Bill 23, which calls for the introduction of kindergarten for disadvantaged 4-year-olds across the province, starting in September. The Saint-Zotique experiment is the model for the proposed plan, as an alternative for children who do not attend Quebec’s $7-a-day daycare."
QC: Daycare Association Decries Early Kindergarten
Source: The Montreal Gazette, April 29, 2013
Excerpt: "The Parti Québécois government wants to offer kindergarten classes, starting at age 4, for disadvantaged children needing extra preparation to succeed in school. But at National Assembly hearings Monday on Bill 23, which would allow the change, school-board representatives applauded the idea while kindergarten teachers and representatives of CPEs, Quebec’s parent-managed, publicly funded daycare centres, were opposed."
BC: The 2013 Child Care Election Platforms - Do They Move Us Towards the $10/Day Plan?
Source: Coalition of Child Care Advocates, April 29, 2013
Excerpt: "Thanks to more than 1 million British Columbians who support the $10/Day Child Care Plan and want immediate action to solve BC's child care crisis - child care has become a provincial election priority. Leading up to this election, we called on politicians to make a commitment to the vision reflected in the $10 A Day Child Care Plan. We knew that it would take time to fully fund and implement the Plan but we were clear that the first steps, however small, needed to begin transforming early care and learning services from the failed ‘user fee’ market model to a publicly funded and delivered system. The first steps needed to begin the process of building a child care system."
US: Preschool Funding Reached 'State Of Emergency' In 2012: NIEER Report
Source: The Huffington Post, April 29, 2013
Excerpt: ""The state of preschool was a state of emergency" in 2012, said Steve Barnett, NIEER's director. Between the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 school years, pre-K spending on state programs dropped by more than $548 million overall, and $442 per student (to $3,841) when adjusted for inflation, according to the report."
US: Chicago Expanding Pre-K Programs For Next Fall
Source: CBS Chicago, April 24, 2013
Excerpt: "Four-year-old Richard Cruz can spell his name, recite the alphabet, and count. It’s just a snippet of what he’s learning at Chicago Commons... "He also knows how to write his name fully, he knows how to count up to 60, he knows how to write the numbers. He exceeds as well at everything. Socially, mentally, he’s on top of it, and he’s actually beginning to learn to read," his mother Gloria Cruz said. "I think the center has a lot to do with it.""
BC: Vancouver Dedicates $5-Million Budget Surplus to Childcare Reserve
Source: The Vancouver Sun, April 24, 2013
Excerpt: "The City of Vancouver has announced it will dedicate the 2012 budget surplus of $5 million to the city's Childcare Reserve for the purpose of creating new child-care spaces. This is the largest ever increase in child-care funding from the city."
US: Historian Argues That Politics Have Hijacked Family Policy
Source: The Paramus Post, April 24, 2013
Excerpt: "The most frustrating thing about President Obama's promising new plan for universal pre-Kindergarten is that we could have had it -- and almost did -- more than forty years ago."
ON: Extended Childcare Program Coming to Upper Grand Schools
Source: Guelph Mercury, April 23, 2013
Excerpt: "The Upper Grand District School Board signed agreements with childcare providers to offer before- and after-school care at 24 schools in the board. Operators signed three-year contracts with the option of renewing for up to five more years. The agreements are prompted by implementation of full-day kindergarten. It was the Ministry of Education’s vision that schools would offer an extended-day program to complement full-day kindergarten and provide a seamless day for students who need it."
ON: City Seeks Labour Study into Shortage of Educators
Source: The London Free Press, April 22, 2013
Excerpt: "Despite Ontario’s focus on early childhood education — being rolled out to every public school in the province — London’s childcare sector is suffering an acute labour shortage, city staff say.
To find out why there’s a shortage of early childhood educators (ECEs), especially in a city running Canada’s highest metro jobless rate, politicians on London’s community and protective services committee will be asked to approve a labour market survey Monday."
Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance Study on Income Inequality in Canada
Source: Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada, April 5, 2013
Excerpt: "This submission is intended to bring to your attention the evidence about the importance of early childhood education and care (ECEC) in addressing Canada’s growing "equality gap" in a variety of ways including reducing poverty and supporting workforce participation of parents, especially mothers."
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