After the February Revolution on initiative of Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Mykola Vasylenko was invited to the Central Council of Ukraine on position of deputy chairman, but he did not actively participated in the council's sessions. On March 24, 1917 the Russian Provisional Government appointed Vasylenko as a curator of the Kiev school district and on August 19, 1917 he became a deputy minister of Education in the Russian Provisional Government. Vasylenko was supporter of evolutionary development of system of the Ukrainian National Education that did not correspond to the policy of Ukrainiazation of education, established by the I and II All-Ukrainian Teachers congresses and carried out by the General Secretariat of Education (General Secretariat of Ukraine).