Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A local board that oversees public schools.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A local board of education or school-committee; specifically, in Great Britain, a body of managers, elected by the ratepayers, male and female, in a town or parish, to provide adequate means of instruction for every child in the district, with the power of compelling the attendance of the children at school, unless their education is satisfactorily provided for otherwise.
Wiktionary
- n. A governing body of people elected to oversee management of a school district and represent the interests of residents.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a corporation established by law in every borough or parish in England, and elected by the burgesses or ratepayers, with the duty of providing public school accommodation for all children in their district.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a board in charge of local public schools
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“This one featured the Water Wings cocaptains actually looking away from the camera as they sat in the front row of a school board meeting.”
“On the evening news you are likely to hear of multicar crackups, destructive hurricanes, violent crimes, messy celebrity divorces, and yes, raucous school board debates over the teaching of evolution.”
“Miss Deale was still our teacher, since the school board continued to allow her to advance with her class.”
“A committee of the London County school board makes this declaration: "At times, WHEN THERE IS NO SPECIAL DISTRESS, 55,000 children in a state of hunger, which makes it useless to attempt to teach them, are in the schools of London alone.”
“Mary Vardine McBee, as you know, was the founder of Ashley Hall a girl's school Mary Vardine McBee was chosen by the school board and she became”
“In 1899, a teacher in a Gage County school obtained permission from the local school board to have religious exercises during school hours.”
“Dakota downloaded a letter from the ACLU website and presented it to the school board at the meeting, informing them that under federal law they had to allow the GSA or ban all noncurricular clubs.”
“Several incumbants on the county commission and the school board had been defeated.”
“Cosby, who is Craig's protege and in the Guy Phillips 'organization of the school board association, would say you can't have any differentiation.”
“Bubbe Mary voted Republican in every election from school board to president, and would make Bill Kristol look liberal.”
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