Ministry of Education
Delivering early years, child care and publicly funded education from kindergarten to Grade 12.
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Students, teachers and school staff attending in-person learning need to check for symptoms of illness every day before going to school.
Early years and child care
For parents
Information about what students learn, plus ways to get involved in your child’s education and resources in many languages.
For teachers
Information on professional development and teaching tools.
For school boards
Information on education funding grants, collective agreements and other resources.
What we do
- Develop policy and programs to support child care and early years programs for children and families.
- Make sure child care settings are safe and follow the law by funding, licensing and inspecting licensed child care providers.
- Fund and provide guidelines for the delivery of core services at EarlyON child and family centres.
- Fund and oversee publicly funded elementary and secondary school education.
- Develop and publish curriculum documents and teaching resources for kindergarten to Grade 12.
- Set provincial standards and guidelines for all assessment, evaluation and reporting for all students who attend public or private schools in Ontario.
- Oversee and set policies for the Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO), which administers provincial assessments to help improve student learning in reading, writing and math.
- Set requirements for student diplomas and certificates.
- Provide funding to build new schools and expand, retrofit or repair existing schools.
- Operate schools for blind, deaf and deafblind students.
- Register and inspect private schools that offer credits toward an Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD).
Contact us
- Contact form
416-325-2929 1-800-387-5514 1-800-268-7095
Ministry of Education
315 Front Street, 14th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M7A 0B8
Ministry news
Agencies, boards and commissions
The ministry is affiliated with the following independent agencies:
Legislation
The ministry administers the following legislation:
- Child Care and Early Years Act
- Early Childhood Educators Act
- Education Act
- Education Quality and Accountability Office Act
- Fairness for Parents and Employees Act (Teachers’ Withdrawal of Services)
- Ministry of Community and Social Services Act
- Ontario College of Teachers Act
- Ontario Educational Communications Authority Act
- Ontario French-language Educational Communications Authority Act
- Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Repeal Act
- Ontario School Trustees’ Council Act
- Ottawa-Carleton French-Language School Board Transferred Employees Act
- Provincial Schools Authority Act
- Ryan’s Law (Ensuring Asthma Friendly Schools)
- Sabrina’s Law
- School Boards Collective Bargaining Act
- School Trust Conveyances Act
- Teachers’ Pension Act
- Teaching Profession Act