Ministry of Education

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.
• Fund and oversee the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (TVO), which supports education and lifelong learning through educational communications, programs and curriculum-linked digital resources.
• Grant TVO authority to award course credits and the Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) through the online Independent Learning Centre (ILC), in English and French.
• 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).