The Ontario budget was tabled March 25th, 2010.
Highlights
Full-day early learning:
- Implementing full-day learning for four- and five-year-olds, beginning in September 2010, which will benefit up to 35,000 children in nearly 600 schools
- This program will be phased in over time, with a goal of having full-day learning fully implemented by 2015-16
- At full implementation, full-day learning will employ up to an additional 3,800 teachers and 20,000 early childhood educators and benefit about 247,000 children.
Child Care Investments
- Stepping in to permanently fill the gap left by the federal government with an investment of $63.5 million a year to preserve 8,500 child care spaces
- This initiative will help to ensure that working parents continue to have access to quality child care and play an active role in the labour force.