Assistant Deputy Minister and Rita Mueller

Rita Mueller: It's play-based, very hands on, says Rita Mueller, assistant deputy minister with the Department of Education, Culture and Employment. , according to CBC. The taxpayers have said we need to have more options for parents for high quality early childhood programs, and we believe this is the responsible financially prudent way to go about that, Mueller says. Starting this fall, schools in the Northwest Territories will begin offering full-day junior kindergarten to four-year-olds . She says new junior kindergarten programming will roll out over the next three years, starting with the territorys smallest communities, followed by regional centres and finally, Yellowknife. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.