Louis Riel school division targets ‘child-care crisis’

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The Louis Riel School Division plans to transform more classrooms into child-care spaces before and after its bells ring to better support working parents.

“We have a child-care crisis in the province… The school system has to be part of the solution,” said Christian Michalik, superintendent of the division that encompasses St. Boniface, River Park South and surrounding communities.

The division is developing a strategy to reduce waitlists for on-site and off-site supervision programs in the early mornings and late afternoons. The board office is in the process of hiring a manager to expand school-run day cares and staff new ones with educational assistants.

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