With our Best Future in Mind

[小傻]

A Message from Dr. Pascal
A Message from Dr. Pascal - Ontario.ca

In partnership with parents, full-day learning will provide Ontario children with high quality programs that help lay the foundation for a healthy and productive life. I have submitted my report, With Our Best Future in Mind to the Premier on how to implement full day learning for 4- and 5-year-olds.

I encourage you to read the report and the accompanying brochure which provides a summary of my recommendations. In addition you may be interested in reviewing the working assumptions that guided my thinking throughout the development of the report.

I also invite you to download and read two companion reports, one that provides the vast evidence and best practice that informed my recommendations and another, due shortly on this site, that offers a curriculum for the early years to guide early learning professionals in fostering the development of young children.
I am extremely grateful to the thousands of Ontarians who contributed their thoughts on early learning through emails, phone calls, meetings, and this website.

There is tremendous support for early learning in Ontario. Together, I am confident we can build ‘our best future’.

Charles E. Pascal
June 15th, 2009

 

[小傻]

Does this mean both JK and SK will be full day from 2010?

 

[zijiema]

真的吗？

希望是真的，好把我解放出来了。

 

[小傻]

I love this guy..
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Enabling parents to spend more time with their new baby creates a strong foundation for the child and decreases the need for expensive infant care. The report recommends that an improved parental leave and benefits program be established by 2020, and include:

• paid parental leave of 400 days after the birth or adoption of a child;
• six weeks of leave designated exclusively for the father or non-birthing parent;
• expanded coverage to include self-employed parents;
• flexibility for parents on leave to return to work part-time;
• 10 days of legislated job-protected leave annually for parents of children under 12.