Kindergarten: Do you want to see full-day classes in your province?
- January 12, 2010 11:03 AM |
- By POV
Nearly 600 Ontario schools will offer full-day kindergarten to four- and five-year-olds next fall.
Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty, who is moving ahead with the program despite the province's $25-billion deficit, was in Chatham, Ont., on Tuesday to unveil details of the first phase of the plan, expected to take five years to implement.
About 35,000 children, or 15 per cent of all eligible kids, will be able to enrol in the program next September, and McGuinty has promised to expand that to 50,000 in 2011.
All eligible children should be able to enrol in the program by 2015, at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion a year.
Do you want to see full-day kindergarten made available in your province? Take our poll. Do you think the program will be worth the cost?
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