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Compelling talk on how the increase in expressions of anti-Asian racism have affected Asian educators in Canada.

Last week, ÃÈÃÃÉçÇø community members were subject to anti-Asian racist threats and video of a man holding a machine gun during a virtual meeting.

A young girl has a heartwarming reaction to seeing herself being represented in a new book series that celebrates Black identity.

The Atkinson Centre promotes research on child development, and the development of early learning policy and practice that serve young children and their families.

Hart House's inaugural Hip Hop Education Community Connector, Marcus Singleton, is doing what he loves most: engaging with students through hip hop.

Rich Baxter, Principal of Innovation in Education, and his team have won bronze at the Reimagine Education Awards for his program The Bootstrapping Checklist.

Excerpt: "EXPANDING CHILD CARE: The pandemic shone a light on how important reliable and affordable child care is. It gives kids an early start on the path to learning and it helps parents return to work and pursue opportunities. For too long, investing in child care was not the priority it should have been. Many parents felt left behind by rising fees and long waiting lists. Your government has been working hard to change that. Families are already benefiting from thousands of new spaces and saving up to $19,000 a year in lower fees. Your government will build on the progress made by more than doubling $10-a-day spaces and reducing average fees by as much as 50% by the end of this year. Our province is closer than ever to having the first new social program in a generation. A future where child care is a core service – available to every family that wants it, when they need it, at a price they can afford. As part of that work, your government will move responsibility for child care into the Ministry of Education this year, which will manage child care programs through new regional offices. This new, regional approach will allow your government to better understand local needs as it continues to build more spaces for families. Over time, this will bring certainty and reliability to child care. The same way that parents feel knowing that they have a public school to send their kids to."

Excerpt: "Manitoba is expanding eligibility to its Child Care Subsidy Program on Feb. 6, 2022, resulting in nearly half of regulated spaces being subsidized. This will reduce out-of-pocket parent fees for families with children in regulated child care by 30 per cent on average. This change ensures Manitoba is on track to achieve a key joint commitment in the Canada-Manitoba Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC) agreement to reduce out-of-pocket parent fees by 50 per cent by Dec. 31, 2022."

Monica Heller a reçu un doctorat honorifique de l'Université autonome de Barcelone

The Atkinson Centre promotes research on child development, and the development of early learning policy and practice that serve young children and their families.

Presented by Emis Akbari, Professor and Program Coordinator, School of Early Childhood, George Brown College | Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre, ÃÈÃÃÉçÇø/University of Toronto, at the Research Roundtable: Care Work in the Recovery Economy, February 2-3 2022

Dr. Amal Madibbo, who joined ÃÈÃÃÉçÇø in 2021 and has been appointed Founding Director of the Centre for Black Studies in Education.