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Expanded mandates bring big school changes

source Katherine Wagner, Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Times
date July 18, 2008
   
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CUPE BC calls for universal kindergarten for 3-5 year-olds

source CUPE BC
date July 18, 2008
   
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Kindergarten debate reopened

source Stephen Smysnuik, Coquitlam Now
date July 18, 2008
   
title

Classrooms approved for daycares

source Maria Rantanen, Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Times
date July 18, 2008
   
title

Couple upset after overseas agency charges would-be nanny $3,500 fee

source Ian Austin, The Province
date July 17, 2008 
   
title

It takes a nation to raise a generation

source Laurel Rothman, Family Service Toronto; Penny Irons, chief development officer of the Aboriginal Mother Centre Society; and Adrienne Montani is provincial coordinator of First Call: B.C. Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition. Vancouver Sun
date July 15, 2008
   
title

Limited access frustrates parents; Younger kids get one class a day

source Mary Frances Hill, Times Colonist (Victoria) / Canwest News Service
date July 14, 2008
   
title 'Lots of ifs' in program to get kids into kindergarten earlier
source Robert Barron, The Daily News (Nanaimo)
date July 10, 2008
   
title 12 new daycare centres to open in district schools
source Robert Mangelsdorf, Metrovalley Newspaper Group - Maple Ridge News
date July 10, 2008
   
title

Forum coming on Kindergarten change proposal

source Ashley Gaudreault, Cowichan Valley Citizen
date July 9, 2008
   
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Talks begin on full-day kindergarten proposal

source Roszan Holmen, Victoria News
date July 8, 2008
   
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School closures no risk to new classes: officials; Plans to expand kindergarten will require more space

source Lindsay Kines, Times Colonist (Victoria)
date July 6, 2008
   
title

B.C. should not abandon its disability support system

source Editorial: Michael Prince and Tim Stainton; Vancouver Sun
date July 4, 2008
   
title

Childcare services not keeping pace with demand: parent survey

source Tessa Holloway, Alaska Highway News
date July 4, 2008
   
title Victoria mulls all-day kindergarten; Government also considering pre-kindergarten for younger kids
source Glenda Luymes, The Province
date July 4, 2008
   
title

More than nap time
Kids may be ready for more kindergarten - but are the grown-ups?

source Metrovalley Newspaper Group - The Tri-City News
date July 3, 2008
   
title

Partnerships could work, says Cooper

source Diane Strandberg, Metrovalley Newspaper Group - The Tri-City News
date July 3, 2008
   
title

Trustees call consultation timeline flawed

source Adrian Nieoczym, Cariboo Press - Kelowna Capital News
date July 3, 2008
   
title

Kids pay price for B.C. school underfunding

source Opinion: Irene Lanzinger, President, B.C. Teachers' Federation; Metrovalley Newspaper Group - Langley Times
date July 1, 2008
   
title Happy Canada Day! But you may have less to celebrate than you think
source Canadian Press
date June 30, 2008
   
title

Ministry 'flipping' on closures

source Maria Rantanen, Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Times
date June 27, 2008
   
title

When is it too early for school? Province considers full-day kindergarten for four-year-old children by 2010

source Robert Barron, The Daily News (Nanaimo)
date June 27, 2008
   
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Full day kindergarten hot educational topic; Government also looks into offering free full day pre-kindergarten

source Mike Chouinard, Chilliwack Times
date June 27, 2008
   
title We'll have better daycare when we fund it properly
source Editorial: Judi Malcolm, Campbell River; Vancouver Sun
date June 26, 2008
   
title We'll have better daycare when we fund it properly
source Editorial: Darryl Walker, President, B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union; Vancouver Sun
date June 26, 2008
   
title

The E Word: Harper hostile to equality

source Shelagh Day, a Director of the Poverty and Human Rights Centre in Vancouver; Rabble News
date June 25, 2008
   
title

City plan examines social sustainability; Housing, child care among issues that will be explored in new strategy

source Brooke Larsen, Burnaby Now
date June 25, 2008
   
title

DIVIDED AND COMPROMISED: Cabinet Changes Contradict Commitment to Community Living

source BC Association for Community Living
date June 24, 2008
   
title

B.C. reverses view on school closures

source Janet Steffenhagen, Vancouver Sun
date June 24, 2008
   
title

Child care cash ‘definitely not enough’

source Willa Condy, Trail-Rossland News
date June 24, 2008
   

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