A school board is the board of directors or board of trustees of a school, local school district or an equivalent institution.
The elected council determines the educational policy in a regional area, such as a city, county, state, region, or province.
Frequently, a board of directors power with a larger institution, such as a higher government’s department of education.
The name of such board is also often used to refer to the school system under such board’s control.
In Canada, school boards are groups of elected members of a community to whom the provinces have delegated authority over some aspects of education. There were about 800 school boards in Canada in the early 1990s.
A variety of publicly supported school boards exist, generally organized according to religion or language, or both. The two largest groups of school boards are the public boards, providing schools open to all children, and the separate boards, providing educational services for children of Roman Catholic parents.
School boards in Ontario include:
- Toronto District School Board
- Toronto Catholic District School Board
- Peel District School Board
- Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board
- Halton District School Board
- Halton Catholic District School Board
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