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The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities are the agencies of the Ontario government in the Canadian province of Ontario responsible for government policy, funding, curriculum planning and direction in all levels of public education, including elementary schools, high schools, colleges and universities.

The ministry is overseen by two ministers, one responsible for schools and one responsible for postsecondary education. The current Minister of Education is the Honourable Kathleen Wynne, and the current minister of Training, Colleges and Universities is Chris Bentley.

This Ministry is responsible for curriculum and guidelines for all officially recognized elementary and secondary schools in the province and some outside of the province. The ministry is also responsible for public and separate school boards across Ontario, but are not involved in the day to day operations.

Notable ministers of education in the past have included Bill Davis, Dr. Bette Stephenson, Sean Conway and Gerard Kennedy.

See also List of Ontario Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology, List of Ontario universities.

Ministers of Education

Adam Crooks (1876-1883) Liberal
Arthur Sturgis Hardy (1883) interim Liberal
George Ross (1883-1899) Liberal
Richard Harcourt (1899-1905) Liberal
Robert Pyne (1905-1918) Conservative
Henry John Cody (1918-1919) Conservative
Robert Grant (1919-1923) United Farmers of Ontario
Howard Ferguson (1923-1930) as Premier Conservative
George Henry (1930-1934) as Premier Conservative
Leonard Simpson (1934-1940) Liberal
Duncan McArthur (1940-1943) Liberal
George Drew (1943-1948) Progressive Conservative
Dana Porter (1948-1951) Progressive Conservative
William Dunlop (1951-1959) Progressive Conservative
John Robarts (1959-1962) Progressive Conservative
Bill Davis (1962-1971) Progressive Conservative
Robert Welch (1971-1972) Progressive Conservative
Thomas Wells (1972-1978) Progressive Conservative
Bette Stephenson (1978-1985) Progressive Conservative
Keith Norton (1985) Progressive Conservative
Larry Grossman (1985) Progressive Conservative
Sean Conway (1985-1987) Liberal
Christopher Ward (1987-1989) Liberal
Sean Conway (1989-1990) Liberal
Marion Boyd (1990-1991) NDP
Tony Silipo (1991-1993) NDP
Dave Cooke (1993-1995) NDP
John Snobelen (1995-1997) Progressive Conservative
David Johnson (1997-1999) Progressive Conservative
Janet Ecker (1999-2002) Progressive Conservative
Elizabeth Witmer (2002-2003) Progressive Conservative
Gerard Kennedy (2003-2006) Liberal
Sandra Pupatello (2006) Liberal
Kathleen Wynne (2006-present) Liberal

Ministers of Training, Colleges and Universities

Dianne Cunningham (1999-2003) Progressive Conservative
Mary Anne Chambers (2003-2005) Liberal
Christopher Bentley (2005-present) Liberal

Source

The Ministries and Ministers of the Department of Education

External links

This biographical information was gathered from the Ontario_Ministry_of_Education page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project.

Books

Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education
The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
The Ontario Readers Third Book
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: History
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools

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