What is Board of education?
[[File:Robert Harris - A Meeting of the School Trustees.jpg|right|thumb|''A Meeting of the School Trustees'' by [[Robert Harris (painter)|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 anything like those. ==In the United States== For over a century, '''local boards''' were responsible for public education funding, standards, instruction, and results. To a extent is still true. At their height in the 1930s, there were as many as 127,500 boards. Some rural states had more school board members than teachers. Such boards looked over school systems serving [[agriculture|agrarian]] and industrial economies.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Toch|first=Thomas|date=2011|title=Who Rules?|url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=66423636&site=ehost-live|journal=Wilson Quarterly|volume=35|issue=4|pages=43–47|issn=0363-3276|access-date=April 3, 2019}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{Stub}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:Educational organizations]]