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school board

noun

  1. a local board or committee in charge of public education.


school board

noun

  1. (formerly in Britain) an elected board of ratepayers who provided local elementary schools between 1870 and 1902
  2. (in the US and Canada) a local board of education
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of school board1

First recorded in 1820–30
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“Discipline needs may vary by district, and local school boards and superintendents are better positioned to respond to those needs. When they get it wrong, they can be held accountable by their own communities.”

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Today in Orange County, there are at least 24 Vietnamese Americans in city and county offices, and there are others on school boards, sanitation and water boards and in Orange County Superior Court.

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Rather than define what “nonclassroom- based instruction” meant, he said, the state left that decision to the school boards and county education offices that regulate charter schools.

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The case regards a Montgomery County school board's decision to include books featuring same-sex marriage, trans characters and a Pride parade as part of their curriculum.

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“Here, the school board is imposing indoctrination on these children.”

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