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Catholic board picks seven schools for full-day kindergarten Seven elementary schools have been picked by the Halton Catholic District School Board to offer a full-day early learning program (ELP) for four-and five-year olds next year. The list of proposed schools for implementation of this new initiative in the first phase are: Our Lady of Fatima and St. Peter Catholic elementary schools in Milton; Holy Rosary, St. Patrick and St. John Catholic elementary schools in Burlington; and St. Luke and St. James Catholic elementary schools in Oakville. Two more schools would be added the following year, St. Catherine of Alexandria Catholic elementary school in Halton Hills and St. Joseph Catholic elementary school in Acton. Deadline for submitting a list of schools to the Ministry of Education was Nov. 30. These selections are contingent on final approval by the Ministry of Education, which should be received on or before Jan. 15. Registration will take place at the same time as the regular kindergarten early registration that will be held on Jan. 26 and 27. The provincial government will be phasing in the full-day early learning program for junior and senior kindergarten students over a five-year period. Although the government has committed $200 million for the first year of implementation at a limited number of schools across the province, it is not providing any funds in the first year to build or renovate additional kindergarten classrooms. School boards must find schools where classroom space already exists. The Ministry provided school boards with criteria to help select schools for the initial implementation. Selection was based on: · community needs, · the impact on existing child care facilities, · where neighbouring school boards implement the program · and whether a school may be slated for closure. The individual funding targets established by the Ministry of Education for each school board will determine the rate of implementation of this initiative by the boards over the five-year phase in period. 19 · Friday, December 4, 2009 OAKVILLE BEAVER · www.oakvillebeaver.com Final approval of ROPA 38 slated for Dec. 16 Continued from page 1 which would see the Region start to impose more detailed urban planning guidelines onto the local municipalities, and "require" rather than "encourage" them to adopt planning policies that were previously left up to the municipalities. For example, the local municipalities would be required to prepare area-specific plans for growth areas that not only meet traditional Provincial and Regional planning guidelines but new demands such as developing a strategy for transit to be introduced early in the life of new subdivisions and where, how and when affordable housing will be provided. 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