Ontario Education Minister says he withheld EQAO test scores, prompting outcry | Unpublished
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Author: Laura Stone, Dave McGinn
Publication Date: November 20, 2025 - 20:21

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Ontario Education Minister says he withheld EQAO test scores, prompting outcry

November 20, 2025

Ontario’s Education Minister says he is withholding the results of provincewide standardized tests to better understand the data and make changes to the system, as critics push the province to reveal the numbers publicly.

Paul Calandra said he has purposefully held back the Education Quality and Accountability Office results, which are usually released in September or early October, in order to take a “very deep dive” into the numbers.



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