Education
INCREASE WAGES FOR CHILDCARE WORKERS
The Guardian (Charlottetown) 28 Oct 2019 The King government recently announced the creation of a publicly funded, half-day preschool program for four-year-olds on P.E.I. As long as the funding is adequate, such a program will help thousands of Island families, especially those living on low and moderate incomes. Within 24 hours, the Green Party was…
Read MoreNDP PEI Supports Early Childhood Educators
Joe Byrne meets with Association reps There have been two very different responses to the call for a wage increase for PEI’s French-language early childhood educators. On January 18th Jordan Brown, the Minister of Education, Early Learning and Culture, said that the $7 increase requested by workers in French centres “would throw the system…
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