“'It’s just terribly worrisome that we’re already into a school year and we have a robocall asking parents to recruit teachers,'” Chender said."
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“Where a judge has mandated that a person receive intensive therapy we need to be able to deliver it if the only way they can do that right now is at Waterville they’re going to have to figure out how to do it there.”
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My thoughts on the bussing issue. September 13th, 2017 on the Sheldon MacLeod Show:
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"NDP education critic Claudia Chender said taking “a step back” would also give the government an opportunity to minimize the impact on private, non-profit providers who fear losing staff to the public system.
“It’s happening too quickly with no consultation and as a result everyone … is pretty much left in the dark and that’s a pretty challenging place to be when you are rolling out a major program,” said Chender."
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I had the opportunity to continue my conversation with Sheldon MacLeod about pre-primary on July 26th.
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My thoughts on the pre-primary rollout in Local Xpress this morning.
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Claudia Chender, the NDP representative for Dartmouth South and her party’s education critic, said in a release that the ratio change for pre-primary is problematic.
"How can parents be assured that their children will be adequately supervised, and that the sites will be suitable for children as young as 3 1/2?" Chender said.
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Tune in at 36:00 to hear my chat with Sheldon MacLeod about the new Pre-Primary rollout
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