Mr. Chairman, that particular question will have to depend on us working closely with the school boards. The infrastructure, the space availability within a school, so we would have to work out those logistics and as the Member indicated, we are in February, and September, so we do have some time to work with them as well. We have done our research and we have done analysis of the spaces that are available to us, and we have that information before us. Some of the information that Members… I totally agree with the Member that we need qualified professionals to deal with our children in the Northwest Territories and I can just highlight some of the areas where we have early childhood workers taking courses currently. Thirty-three of them. We have early childhood workers that have certification, 27 of them. We have early childhood diploma workers, 15 of them. Those early childhood workers with degrees, there are three of them. Obviously, we want to increase those degrees and diplomas and certification. We have some of those individuals that do not have post-secondary programming; that is around 31 in the small communities. So, Bachelor of Education is another seven individuals that are working within the system of licenced child care programming, so those are just some of the areas that we currently have. Again, we want to increase those numbers and that is what we will be doing as we move forward on the junior kindergarten and so forth.
Jackson Lafferty on Committee Motion 16-17(5): Comprehensive Review Of The Program Review Office, Defeated
In the Legislative Assembly on February 26th, 2014. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 16-17(5): Comprehensive Review Of The Program Review Office, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 25th, 2014
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