From today's Guardian
The long-awaited report detailing how government should implement
kindergarten in the P.E.I. school system will finally be released next
week.
On Monday, Premier Robert Ghiz and Education and Early Childhood
Development Minister Gerard Greenan will host a news conference in
Summerside to release Kindergarten Commissioner Pat Mella’s final
kindergarten report, government announced Thursday.
Mella’s final recommendations of how best to roll out kindergarten in
Island schools were presented to the premier in June and Mella briefed
cabinet on her findings last Tuesday.
At that time Ghiz told reporters cabinet wanted a week to digest the report before letting the public see it.
That drew some criticism from parents whose children will be affected
by the move of kindergarten into the school system in 2010.
April Ennis, a parent and co-director of the non-profit group Parents
for Choice and Quality, believes government has been stalling the
release of its kindergarten plan due to the controversy surrounding the
province’s recent decision to close 11 small rural schools.
“I’m disappointed they are prolonging this release but I think they’re
doing it on purpose to give them a little more time to get over the
school closures,” Ennis
told The Guardian earlier this week.
She is one of many parents, early childhood educators and school
administrators who will be paying close attention to Mella’s findings
when they are released.
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