{"id":34003,"date":"2020-07-07T08:41:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T12:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=34003"},"modified":"2020-07-07T08:41:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T12:41:20","slug":"ndp-demands-back-to-school-help-for-parents-and-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/07\/ndp-demands-back-to-school-help-for-parents-and-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"NDP demands back-to-school help for parents and schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NDP Education critic Marit Stiles and NDP Child Care critic Doly Begum say the Ford government\u2019s vague instructions for school re-opening is leaving parents and educators with no certainty they\u2019ll have support to make it work. They\u2019re calling for a number of specific commitments from Ford, including everything from more teachers and school busses to ensure physical distancing, to paid leave for parents who have kids learning from home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking parents are anxious about how to manage when work resumes but full-time school doesn\u2019t,\u201d said Stiles. \u201cIf kids can\u2019t get back to school, working parents can\u2019t get back to work. It\u2019s that simple.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChild care is critical to reopening the economy and ensuring that parents, especially women, can re-enter the workforce,\u201d Begum said. \u201cThe government has been treating this as an afterthought when it should be a top priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>New Democrats called on the government to implement an immediate action plan including:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Guarantee that parents will be able to access paid, job-protected leave until school and child care fully resumes.<\/li>\n<li>Immediate funding to stabilize the child care sector to prevent fee increases and layoffs.<\/li>\n<li>Hire more teachers and other education workers to allow for more, smaller classes.<\/li>\n<li>Immediate funding for urgent school repairs and upgrades, including infection control (eg: touch-free sinks and soap dispensers).<\/li>\n<li>Funding for more school busses to allow for physical distancing.<\/li>\n<li>Additional support for students with special needs or who are struggling online.<\/li>\n<li>Strike a COVID-19 recovery school advisory group that includes frontline education workers, parents and students, school boards and parents.<\/li>\n<li>Consult with municipalities to find ways to use available public infrastructure so that school and child care centres can resume in-person for as many children as possible in a safe and healthy way.<\/li>\n<li>Guarantee that no essential workers currently receiving emergency child care will lose child care provision when\u00a0the emergency child care program ends<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>School boards across the province are in the process of developing plans for September based on general, vague instructions the government issued on June 19. They mandate starting with a hybrid model that would keep kids learning at home at least half the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NDP Education critic Marit Stiles and NDP Child Care critic Doly Begum say the Ford government\u2019s vague instructions for school re-opening is leaving parents and educators with no certainty they\u2019ll have support to make it work. They\u2019re calling for a number of specific commitments from Ford, including everything from more teachers and school busses to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorials"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-15 10:43:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34004,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34003\/revisions\/34004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}