LEARNING IN ONTARIO
Policy/Program Memoranda
Numbered policy directives are issued to district school boards and school authorities to outline the Ministry of Education's expectations regarding the implementation of ministry policies and programs.
Selected Policy/Program Memoranda are made available here for reference purposes only, and education personnel are advised to verify information before acting upon it.
An Adobe Acrobat file is available for some memoranda.
- PPM 147: Applications For Letters of Permission (PDF, 80 KB)
- PPM 146: Revisions to Credit Requirements to Support Student Success and Learning to 18 (PDF, 56 KB)
- PPM 145: Progressive Discipline and Promoting Positive Student Behaviour (PDF, 76 KB)
- PPM 144: Bullying Prevention and Intervention (PDF, 68 KB)
- PPM 143: Expectations Regarding Inclusion of Non-teaching Staff Affected by the 2006 Amendment to R.R.O. 1990, Regulation 304 (PDF, 20 KB)
- PPM 142: School Board Programs For Expelled Students (PDF, 83 KB)
- PPM 141: School Board Programs For Students On Long-Term Suspension (PDF, 96 KB)
- PPM 140: Incorporating methods of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) into programs for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) (PDF, 64 KB)
- PPM 139: Revisions to Ontario Secondary Schools (OSS) to support student success and learning to 18 (PDF, 39 KB)
- Your new co-op advantage (PDF, 384 KB)
- What do you need to graduate? (PDF, 39 KB)
- Cooperative Education Fact Sheet (PDF, 112 KB)
- PPM 138: Daily Physical Activity in elementary schools, Grades 1–8 (PDF, 33 KB)
- PPM 137: Use of additional teacher resources to support student success in Ontario secondary schools (PDF, 30 KB)
- PPM 136: Clarification of section 49.1 of the Education Act: Education of persons unlawfully in Canada (PDF, 33 KB)
- PPM 135: Healthy foods and beverages in elementary school vending machines (PDF, 158 KB)
- Dietitians of Canada: School Food and Nutrition Recommendations for Ontario Ministry of Education Regarding Snacks and Beverages Dispensed by Vending Machines(PDF, 103 KB)
- Dietitians of Canada: Recommendations for School Food and Nutrition for Ontario Ministry of Education(PDF, 56 KB)
- PPM 134: Increase in the number of locally developed compulsory credit courses (PDF, 29 KB)
- PPM 133: Music Certificates Accepted for Credits (PDF, 101 KB)
- PPM 132: Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR) for Mature Students: Implementation in Ontario Secondary Schools
- PPM 131: Home schooling
- PPM 130: School board programs for students who have received a full expulsion (PDF, 52 KB)
- PPM 129: Prior learning assessment and recognition (PLAR): Implementation in Ontario Secondary Schools
- PPM 128: The Provincial Code of Conduct and School Board Codes of Conduct (PDF, 84 KB)
- PPM 127: The Secondary School Literacy Graduation Requirement (PDF, 64 KB)
- PPM 126: Implementation of the Teacher-Adviser Program and use of the term "co-instructional activities"
- PPM 124A: Ontario Secondary School Diploma Requirement: Community Involvement Activities in English-Language Schools
- PPM 123: Safe arrivals
- PPM 120: School board policies on violence prevention in schools
- PPM 119: Development and implementation of school board policies on antiracism and ethnocultural equity
- PPM 118: Religious education programs offered in inspected private secondary schools
- PPM 117: Access to information on secondary school programs and to guidance services between coterminous school boards
- PPM 116: Integration of computers across the curriculum
- PPM 114: Requirements for reporting attendance in registers
- PPM 113: Funding for cross-curricular use of computer technology
- PPM 112: Education about religion in the public elementary and secondary schools
- PPM 110: Interrelationship of Native-As-a-Second Language (NSL) and French-As-a-Second Language programs
- PPM 108: Opening and closing exercises in public elementary and secondary schools
- PPM 89: The residential demonstration schools for students with learning disabilities: General information and details of the referral process
- PPM 85: Educational Programs for Pupils in Government-Approved Care and/or Treatment Facilities
- PPM 81: Provision of Health Support Services in School Settings
- PPM 76C: Alternative Educational Programs and Services for Deaf, Blind, and Deaf-Blind Exceptional Pupils
- PPM 76A: Workers' Compensation coverage for students in work education programs
- PPM 75A: Carter Scholarship Program, 1994: Procedures and conditions of award
- PPM 59: Psychological Testing and Assessment of Pupils
- PPM 53: Ontario Scholar Program (PDF, 34 KB)
- PPM 33: Employment of continuing education teachers and continuing education instructors
- PPM 30: Hairstylist programs in secondary schools
- PPM 11: Early identification of children's learning needs
- PPM 9: Reporting of children in need of protection
- PPM 8: Learning Disabilities
- PPM 1: Ontario Schools for the Blind and Deaf as Resource Centres
Revoked 18th of October 2006
- PPM 121: Suspension and Dismissal of Supervisory Officers
- PPM 95: Revised Guidelines for Special Education Additional Qualification Courses
- PPM 77: Tuberculosis Control Program
- PPM 54: Ministry of Education Training Programs for Teachers, 1988-89
- PPM 38: Principal's Qualification Program, 1995
- PPM 14: Supervisory Officers - Equal Employment and Promotion Opportunities
Revoked 24th of August 2004
- PPM 115: Program policy for elementary and secondary education
- PPM 109: Termination of the Learning Materials Development Plan
- PPM 107: Reduction of class size in grades 1 and 2
- PPM 58: Elementary school Core French programs
- PPM 45: The Ontario Assessment Instrument Pool/Banque d'instruments de mesure de l'Ontario (OAIP/BIMO)
- PPM 36: Clarification of funding policy on adult education
