Peel school board director to lead province's early learning effort

Jim Grieve, director of the Peel public school board since 2002, is leaving to head up the provincial government's early learning initiative.

Kevin Lee has been so inundated with pleas from parents seeking childcare during the city strike that he felt duty-bound to respond. (2)

Two days into the municipal workers' strike, thousands of parents are struggling to find alternate arrangements for both child care and summer camps. (132)

Hours after city workers walked off the job, dozens of postings for babysitters, childcare services and private day camps are popping up on the online classified... (6)

Frustration and anxiety. That best sums up the feelings expressed by parents who have their children in one of the 57 city-run daycare centres that would be closed... (8)

Each weeknight, Melissa Fournier scrambles to organize where her four school-age children will go the next day after the 3:30 dismissal bell rings. (7)

For Kim Vivash, getting the kids to daycare and JK is an odyssey. Meals, traffic, proper clothing, her commute and a lack of school contact all add up to 12 hours of... (23)

It's too early to say which schools will get the new full-day learning program and when as a new early-learning program slowly ramps up, Premier Dalton McGuinty said... (16)

Parents of 4- and 5-year-olds should be able to leave their children at school from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. as part of sweeping changes bringing daycare and kindergarten... (107)

Mayor David Miller sided with child-care advocates yesterday, expressing opposition to a proposal to restrict the opening of new day nurseries in residential areas. (34)

Melissa Bates, a single mother in Whitby, said she could not enrol at Durham College until she had secured a coveted spot in the school's child-care centre for her 3... (6)

Too few spaces now  in High Park Ave. area, they say, in criticizing city council action. (2)

Toronto council has slapped an order prohibiting new day nurseries on an upscale, three-block stretch of High Park Ave. for a year, after complaints from neighbours... (43)