The development and functions of the Department of Education and local school systems, the financing of education, and the educational activities of provincial and federal governments are studied in this volume. The emphasis is on current issues and problems. Dr Fleming delves into the activities of the department since 1965, giving a thorough analysis of the consolidation of local administrative units in 1969. He describes in detail the financing of education, the budgetary practices of the department, and the system of federal and provincial grants. The last section gives a description of every type of educational activity of the provincial and federal governments.

W.G. Fleming (1923-1975) was a professor emeritus of Education at the University of Toronto and at OISE.

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"This scrupulous concern for accuracy coupled with the range of subjects treated explains why Ontario's Educative Society is at the very least an indispensable reference work ... [It] is a monumental study and no one seriously interested in Ontario or Canadian education can afford not to be familiar with the riches it contains."

University of Toronto Quarterly

"Fleming's volumes are without equal, not only in Ontario but across the nation, in their analysis and synthesis of a province's educational development. For all who are interested in any facet of Ontario education, broadly defined, this series will be a ready and authoritative reference."

Education Canada

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