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A Meeting of the School Trustees by Robert Harris. A board of education, school committee or school board is the board of directors or board of trustees of a school, local school district or an equivalent institution. [1] [2] [3] The elected council determines the educational policy in a small regional area, such as a city, county, state, or ...
Mayoral control of schools is governance over American schools based on the business model, in which the mayor of a city replaces an elected board of education (school board) with an appointed board. The mayor may also directly appoint the head of the school system, called the CEO , superintendent or chancellor. [ 1 ]
A board school in Kempston, Bedfordshire Country Board School in Devon near South Molton. Opened 1876 for just 16 pupils. Closed 1922. Now a private dwelling (semi-detached) and Grade 2 listed. School boards were ad hoc public bodies in England and Wales between 1870 and 1902, which established and administered elementary schools.
The National School Boards Association (NSBA) is a nonprofit educational organization operating as a federation of state associations of school boards across the United States. Founded in 1940, NSBA represents state school boards associations and their more than 90,000 local school board members.
The first African-American to serve on the Alabama State Board of Education was Peyton Finley (1871–1873) from Lafayette in Chambers County who was "free-born" from birth in 1824. Active in the Republican Party after the Civil War, during the Reconstruction era, he served a single term on the State School Board. Among his contributions was ...
The National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) is a nonprofit private association that represents U.S. state and territory boards of education. Founded in 1958, the association initially met in conjunction with the annual conference of the National School Boards Association, but by 1960, it was meeting on its own and had an office in Denver, Colorado.
State officials stated that the school board had taken no action for a year to address budget deficits. Former school board member Rachel Norton said, "…your responsibility as a board member, first and foremost, is the financial condition of the district. That is your job… It doesn't appear that this board has made the hard decisions." [119]
The association was initially composed of 128 individuals from 40 county and 13 city school systems. By July 1949, the association's name was changed to the Alabama Association of School Board Members. AASB was the 39th state school board association formed in the US. In 1950, the association approved its first constitution and bylaws.