Proper noun
(Canadian politics, education) Initialism of Education Quality and Accountability Office, a government agency in the province of Ontario that provides accountability of the province's public education system by means of standardized testing.
(metonymically, uncountable) Annual standardized testing conducted by this agency.
My son hopes that EQAO would be cancelled this year.
Synonym: (pejorative) Evil Questions Attacking Ontario
As part of their work-to-rule campaign, thousands of public high school teachers stopped preparing students for the Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) exam, leaving school administrators in charge of giving students the test. Source: Internet