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school board

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school board
n.
A local board that oversees public schools.
school board
n
1. (Social Science / Education) (formerly in Britain) an elected board of ratepayers who provided local elementary schools between 1870 and 1902
2. (Social Science / Education) (in the US and Canada) a local board of education
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Noun1.school boardschool board - a board in charge of local public schools
board of education
board - a committee having supervisory powers; "the board has seven members"


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THE members of the School Board in Doosnoswair being suspected of appointing female teachers for an improper consideration, the people elected a Board composed wholly of women.
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But I must not allow questions of School Board politics to divert me from my subject.
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Many a school board meeting was first to be split into stormy factions of conservatives fighting to hold the old, and of anarchists threatening civilization with their clamors for experimentation.
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