The Government of Ontario's full-day kindergarten initiative has been rolling out since September 2010. It will be implemented in all Ontario elementary schools by September 2014 and it will include before-and-after school programs for kindergarten children and school-aged students. The Ontario government is permitting school boards to allow third-party child care providers to deliver the before-and-after school program. However, the Ottawa Carleton District School Board is looking to possibly run this program themselves and phase out the role of licensed, quality child care centres located in 49 of its elementary schools. I believe that the OCDSB should be partnering with child care providers to deliver the before-and-after school program, not manoeuvring around them. Show your support by signing this petition by visisting www.facebook.com/resultsforyou or www.thepetitionsite.com/4/support-childcare and attending the April 13 Business Services Committee meeting of the OCDSB at 133 Greenbank Road (entrance is located behind the main building).
About Mark Fisher
"It's refreshing to see someone care so much about families and improving public education." - Shannon-Davis Ermuth, Parent, Parkwood Hills Public School.