Ministry of Education
Delivering early years, child care and publicly funded education from kindergarten to Grade 12.
For parents
Information about what students learn, fees, fundraising and school funding 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.
Early years and child care
- Find a child care
- Child care subsidies
- Make a child care complaint
- Search for unlicensed child care violations
- Find an EarlyON child and family centre
- Information for child care providers
Elementary and secondary school
- Find a school
- School year calendar
- Kindergarten
- Curriculum
- Student assessment and report cards
- Online learning
- Special education
- Safe and accepting schools
- Helping to create healthy schools
- French in English-Language schools
- Indigenous 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 ).
Contact us
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- Contact form
- Tel : 416-325-2929
- Toll-free: 1-800-387-5514
- Toll-free TTY : 1-800-268-7095
Ministry of Education
315 Front Street West, 14 th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M7A 0B8
Minister, media and news
- Contact the Minister
- Media contacts
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Agencies, boards and commissions
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