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NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR

REGULATION 7/25

Department of Education Notice

under the

Executive Council Act

(O.C. 2024-191)

(Filed February 3, 2025)

Under the authority of

section 5 of the Executive Council Act , the Lieutenant-Governor in Council gives the following Notice.

Dated at St. Johns, January 31, 2025.

Krista Quinlan

Clerk of the Executive Council

NOTICE

Analysis

Short title

Definitions

Departmental structure

Powers and duties of the minister

Administration of Acts

Repeal

Schedule A

Schedule B

Schedule C

Short title

This Notice may be cited as the Department of Education Notice .

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Definitions

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

(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

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)

(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

(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

The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development Notice,

Newfoundland and Labrador Regulation 92/19, is repealed.

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Schedule A

College Act, 1996

Council on Higher Education Act

Degree Granting Act

Memorial University Act

Memorial University Pensions Act

Private Training Institutions Act

Public Libraries Act

Schools Act, 1997

Student Financial Assistance Act, 2019

Teacher Training Act

Teachers Association Act

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Schedule B

Child Care Act (with Digital Government and Service Newfoundland and Labrador)

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Schedule C

Access to Health and Educational Services Act (with Justice and Public Safety and Health and Community Services)

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