Short title
1.
This Notice may be cited as the Department of Education Notice.
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Definitions
2.
In this Notice
(a)
"department" means, unless the context indicates otherwise, the Department of Education; and
(b)
"minister" means, unless the context indicates otherwise, the Minister of Education.
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Departmental structure
3.
(1) The department was restructured by Order in Council 2024-191.
(2)
The department is presided over by the minister.
(3)
The department has 6 branches, as follows:
(a)
Corporate Services;
(b)
Early Learning, Inclusion and Child Development;
(c)
Education Transformation;
(d)
K-12 Education;
(e)
Post-Secondary Education; and
(f)
Education Operations.
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Powers and duties of the minister
4.
The powers, functions and duties of the minister include the supervision, control and direction of all matters relating to
(a)
child care
services;
(b)
early childhood learning;
(c)
public libraries;
(d)
primary, elementary and secondary education, including:
(i)
schools, the conseil scolaire
and educational agencies receiving financial aid directly or indirectly from the province,
(ii)
transportation of students to and from school,
(iii)
English school operations and corporate services,
(iv)
provincial curriculum and programs, including supports for students with exceptionalities,
(v)
high school certification and provincial assessments,
(vi)
monitoring performance and ensuring progress of schools,
(vii)
regulation of private primary, elementary and secondary schools,
(viii)
home instruction,
(ix)
teacher certification, and
(x)
international educational services; and
(e)
post-secondary education, including
(i)
monitoring and ensuring the progress of post-secondary education and training institutions,
(ii)
programs to support adult literacy,
(iii)
College of the North Atlantic,
(iv)
Memorial University of Newfoundland,
(v)
private training institutions registered under the Private Training Institutions Act
, and
(vi)
financial assistance for students attending post-secondary educational institutions,
which are not, or in so far as they are not, the responsibility of another minister, agency, body, corporation, board, organization or person.
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Administration of Acts
5.
(1) The minister has sole responsibility for the administration of the Acts set out in Schedule A and of all orders and regulations passed or made under those Acts, including those powers, functions or duties necessary or desirable for carrying out the purposes of those Acts.
(2)
The minister and the minister of the department indicated in Schedules B and C share responsibility for the administration of the Acts set out in Schedules B and C and of the orders and regulations passed or made under those Acts, including those powers, functions or duties necessary or desirable for carrying out the purposes of those Acts.
(3)
The minister has primary responsibility for the administration of the Act set out in Schedule B and secondary responsibility for the administration of the Act set out in Schedule C.
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Repeal
6.
The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development Notice,
Newfoundland and Labrador Regulation 92/19, is repealed.
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Schedule A
1.
College Act, 1996
2.
Council on Higher Education Act
3.
Degree Granting Act
4.
Memorial University Act
5.
Memorial University Pensions Act
6.
Private Training Institutions Act
7.
Public Libraries Act
8.
Schools Act, 1997
9.
Student Financial Assistance Act, 2019
10.
Teacher Training Act
11.
Teachers’ Association Act
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Schedule B
1.
Child Care Act (with Digital Government and Service Newfoundland and Labrador)
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Schedule C
1.
Access to Health and Educational Services Act (with Justice and Public Safety and Health and Community Services)
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