Education in Ontario

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Education in Ontario falls under provinicial jurisdiction. Publicly funded elementary and secondary schools are administered by the Ontario's Ontario Ministry of Education, while colleges and universities are administered by the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities.

The current Minister of Education is the Honourable Kathleen Wynne, and the current minister of Training, Colleges and Universities is John Milloy.

Ontario operates four publicly funded school systems. An English-language public school system, a French-language public school system, an English language Separate School system and a French language Separate School system. The public school system was originally Protestant but is now secular and non-denominational. The Separate School system is Roman Catholic (though open to students of all faiths) with the exception of the Penetanguishene Protestant Separate School Board which runs a single Protestant school.

See List of Ontario school boards

The UN has cited Ontario for discrimination against non-Catholics because Ontario publicly funds the Catholic School Board but not schools professing any other faith. A CBC poll suggested that 58.2% of Ontarians want a single publicly funded school system with no discrimination.^[1]

The Independent Learning Centre was founded in 1926 to provide distance education services to elementary and secondary school students. Since 2002, the ILC has been operated by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (TVOntario).