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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.
A PDF file is available for some memoranda.
- PPM 156: Supporting Transitions For Students With Special Education Needs (PDF, 43 KB)
- PPM 155: Diagnostic Assessment in Support of Student Learning (PDF, 61 KB)
- PPM 154: Applications for Letters of Permission for Positions Requiring a Registered Early Childhood Educator (PDF, 75 KB)
- PPM 153: Applications For Temporary Letters Of Approval (PDF, 52 KB)
- PPM 152: Terms And Conditions Of Employment Of Principals And Vice-Principals (PDF, 52 KB)
- PPM 151: Professional Activity Days Devoted To Provincial Education Priorities (PDF, 48 KB)
- PPM 150: School Food And Beverage Policy (PDF, 304 KB)
What You Need To Know About The School Food and Beverage Policy
What People Are Saying About Ontario's New Nutrition Standards
- PPM 149: Protocol For Partnerships With External Agencies For Provision Of Services By Regulated Health Professionals, Regulated Social Service Professionals, And Paraprofessionals (PDF, 40 KB)
- PPM 148: Policies Governing Admission To French-Language Schools In Ontario (PDF, 100 KB)
- PPM 147: Applications For Letters of Permission (PDF, 80 KB)
- PPM 145: Progressive Discipline and Promoting Positive Student Behaviour (PDF, 179 KB)
- PPM 144: Bullying Prevention and Intervention (PDF, 134 KB)
- PPM 142: School Board Programs For Expelled Students (PDF, 86 KB)
- PPM 141: School Board Programs For Students On Long-Term Suspension (PDF, 81 KB)
- PPM 140: Incorporating methods of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) into programs for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) (PDF, 64 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 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, 78 KB)
- PPM 124A: Ontario Secondary School Diploma Requirement: Community Involvement Activities in English-Language Schools
- PPM 123: Safe arrivals
- PPM 120: Reporting violent incidents to the Ministry of Education (PDF, 34 KB)
- PPM 119: Developing and Implementing Equity and Inclusive Education Policies in Ontario Schools (PDF, 117 KB) [Updated in accordance with changes in legislation.]
- 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 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 60A: Ontario Young Travellers Program (PDF, 51 KB)
- PPM 59: Psychological Testing and Assessment of Pupils
- PPM 53: Ontario Scholar Program (PDF, 34 KB)
- 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 10th of October 2012
- PPM 127: The Secondary School Literacy Graduation Requirement
- PPM 133: Music Certificates Accepted for Credits
- PPM 134: Increase in the Number of Locally Developed Compulsory Credit Courses
- PPM 139: Revisions to Ontario Secondary Schools (OSS) to Support Student Success and Learning to 18
- PPM 146: Revisions to Credit Requirements to Support Student Success and Learning to 18
Revoked 6th of September 2011
- PPM 135: Healthy foods and beverages in elementary school vending machines superseded by PPM 150
- Dietitians of Canada: School Food and Nutrition Recommendations for Ontario Ministry of Education Regarding Snacks and Beverages Dispensed by Vending Machines
- Dietitians of Canada: Recommendations for School Food and Nutrition for Ontario Ministry of Education
Revoked 9th of September 2010
- PPM 143: Expectations Regarding Inclusion of Non-teaching Staff Affected by the 2006 Amendment to R.R.O. 1990, Regulation 304
- PPM 116: Integration of computers across the curriculum
- PPM 30: Hairstylist programs in secondary schools
Revoked 9th of September 2009
- PPM 7: Heritage Languages Program
- PPM 15: Supervision of Pupils at Lunch Hour
- PPM 16: Reproduction of Copyright Materials
- PPM 19: Remembrance Day Curriculum
- PPM 20: National Anthem
- PPM 23: Driver Education
- PPM 33: Employment of Continuing Education Teachers and Continuing Education Instructors
- PPM 60: Ministry Resource Document – Partners in Action: the Library Resource Centre in the School Curriculum
- PPM 65: 1. Non-Guideline Courses
2. OSIS: Appendix B
3. OSIS: Appendix C
- PPM 76: Custody and Guardianship of Minors
- PPM 84: Equal Educational Opportunity for Students
- PPM 96: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Education
- PPM 97: Programs Leading to Qualification as a Teacher of the Deaf, Blind, and Deaf-Blind
- PPM 102: Affirmative Action/Employment Equity for Women Employees of School Boards
- PPM 103: Termination of the Book Purchase Plan
- PPM 110: Interrelationship of Native-As-a-Second Language (NSL) and French-As-a-Second Language Programs
- PPM 112: Education about Religion in the Public Elementary and Secondary Schools
- PPM 113: Funding for Cross-Curricular Use of Computer Technology
- PPM 114: Requirements for Reporting Attendance in Registers
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 27th of June 2005
- PPM 126: Implementation of the Teacher-Adviser Program and use of the term "co-instructional activities"
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
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