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Reality check—Costs of all day schooling/daycare

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon July 30, 2008June 3, 2020in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Misc., Quebec, Sweden

Reality check—Costs of all day schooling/daycare: BC Government says it’s studying costs of all day kindergarten for age 3-5, but no costs are mentioned in the consultation paper. $11,500/yr/child age 2-5: Quebec spending on daycare operation costs only—capital, training, bureaucracy,…

Irony: Fewer Kids in School = More School (broken link)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon July 20, 2008June 3, 2020in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Misc., UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

Clyde Hertzman, head of the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) leading the consultation on all-day kindergarten advises expanding schooling for children under age 5 using funds saved by declining school attendance. CBC Radio One “Ideas” (brokenlink), Wednesday, July 16, 2008.…

A fairer way to fund child care: Montreal Gazette. 1-5 are in daycare centres (broken link)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon April 10, 2007June 17, 2020in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Policy with promise

A fairer way to fund child care (broken link): Montreal Gazette. Correction to info in article: Quebec pays up to $60/day/child ($15,700/yr) to daycare centres to subsidize operation costs. Regulation, capital, training, etc are additional costs. Only 21% of Quebec…

Head Start, Sure Start, Success by 6… Questioning the benefits of pre-school

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon February 22, 2007June 3, 2020in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural

Head Start, Sure Start, Success by 6… Questioning the benefits of pre-school: We need to ask if children would be better off if the huge sums of public money going into these programs, related bureaucracies and research went directly to…

Reality Check: Maybe We Ought to Ask…What Does Daycare Cost?

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon December 20, 2006July 7, 2020in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Misc.

Those who can't count should cut the accountability clamour. I am referring to the fear-mongering that directly funding families rather than daycare will increase beer and popcorn sales.Some info for this fact-starved discussion:The daycare lobby says high quality universal daycare…

Perry Preschool Propaganda Project Reality Check: Daycare: The More You Spend, The More You Save!!!???

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon July 1, 2006July 7, 2020in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Misc.

Spending billions will add $2 TRILLION! Daycare lobby economists, often from the corporate sector, come to this fantastical "costs/benefit" conclusion largely based on the 1962 Perry Preschool Project. That's the study that found every $1 "invested" saves $7. It involved…

Response to Dr. Hillel Goelman’s article “Time to get past child care myths”

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon April 30, 2006July 7, 2020in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Quality & staff-child ratios, UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

[Dr. Goelman, daycare lobbyist, had an article in the Vancouver Sun, Monday April 24, 2006. This response was not published by the Sun.] Hillel Goelman and Clyde Hertzman run H.E.L.P. at UBC and are leading daycare promoters. Recently they attacked…

Media Release April 24th, 2006: “Parent Group Say Government Must Cut Funding to Daycare Lobby Now”

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon April 24, 2006July 7, 2020in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Misc.

PARENT GROUP SAYS GOVERNMENT MUST CUT FUNDING TO DAYCARE LOBBY NOWKids First Parent Association of Canada604-291-0088 Parents' groups are asking the government to commit to quickly terminating public funding for daycare lobby groups.Helen Ward, President of Kids First Parent Association…

Daycare Costs

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon March 1, 2005October 6, 2020in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Quebec

Data on the cost of the Quebec system has always shown that most children are not in the system, that cost are very high, and that increased taxes paid by mothers spending more time at jobs do not come near…

Recent findings on negative outcomes for children and parenting in the Quebec system

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon January 15, 2005July 7, 2020in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Quebec

"Universal Childcare, Maternal Labor Supply and Family Well-Being" by Michael Baker (University of Toronto), Jonathan Gruber (MIT) and Kevin Milligan (University of British Columbia).From the study:"We uncover striking evidence that children are worse off in a variety of behavioural and…