school board

noun

|Updated on: 13 Jun 2018

Definition of school board

: a board in charge of local public schools

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Recent Examples of school board from the Web

Heard final reports of the school year from student school board members Trevor Keck, representing Montecito High School, and Casey Martinez, representing Ramona High School.

— maureen robertson, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Trustees rate superintendent Superior," 8 June 2018
Hanssard wrote it will be comprised of students, parents, teachers, members of the Santa Fe ISD Police Department, Superintendent Leigh Wall, school board trustees, a mental health expert and emergency response officials.

— shelby webb, Houston Chronicle, "Santa Fe ISD announces upgraded security plans, committee," 7 June 2018
Brogden told the school board that the cost could come down if the district is able to partner with police in Mansfield, Grand Prairie and Arlington plus the Tarrant County sheriffs and constables.

— nicholas sakelaris, star-telegram, "This Fort Worth-area school district might spend $2.3 million to put armed officers at every campus," 7 June 2018
These women are running for seats on local school boards, and as county judges, state lawmakers, and members ofCongress.

— alexia fernández campbell, Vox, "Black women in Alabama helped defeat Roy Moore. Now they’re running for office in deep-red districts.," 5 June 2018
Four African-American former school board chairs — Griffin, Bishop, Wilhelmenia Rembert and Ericka Ellis-Stewart — spoke to the crowd.

— ann doss helms, charlotteobserver, "Segregation in 2018? Resistance builds as NC town charter school bill labeled racist," 5 June 2018
But reports of employees' potential abuse and neglect of preschool students continued, according to the federal Office of Head Start, which highlighted the persisting problems in a letter sent to JCPS school board chair Diane Porter on May 31.

— mandy mclaren, The Courier-Journal, "JCPS dumped $15M preschool grant before the feds could take it away," 5 June 2018
Kristel Ann Foster, a Tucson school board member, said at a May 22 meeting.

— ricardo cano, azcentral, "Pay raises for teachers, staff vary across Arizona school districts after #RedForEd," 3 June 2018
Thus, when lawyers from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund filed the Green lawsuit in 1965, seeking to integrate the schools of eastern Virginia’s New Kent County, the county school board responded in an ordinary way.

— will stancil, The Atlantic, "The Radical Supreme Court Decision That America Forgot," 29 May 2018

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