Board of education - Wikipedia Board of education For information on school boards in Scotland, see School boards in Scotland. For information on school boards in England and Wales, see School boards in England and Wales. For boards of education in India, see Boards of Education in India. For boards of education in Pakistan, see Boards of Education in Pakistan. For the pre-1944 UK body, see Board of Education ( United Kingdom ). This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. You may improve this article, discuss the issue on the talk page, or create a new article, as appropriate. ( August 2016 ) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( September 2016 ) 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 higher administrative level. The elected council helps determine educational policy in a small regional area, such as a city, county, state or province. It usually shares power with a larger institution, such as the government 's department of education. The name of the board is also often used to refer to the school system under the board 's control. The government department that administered education in the United Kingdom before the foundation of the Ministry of Education was also called the Board of Education. History The American board of education traces its origins back to 1647 with the formation of the American public school system, the Massachusetts Bay Colony mandated that every town within its jurisdiction establish a public school. Committees sprang up to run the institutions, and in the 1820s the state of Massachusetts made the committees independent of local governments, establishing the model for the autonomous school districts that exist throughout the country today. The U.S. Constitution left authority over education in the hands of the states under the Tenth Amendment, which reserved to them all powers not explicitly given to the federal government, and the states passed that authority on to local school boards. For more than a century, local boards were solely responsible for public educations funding, standards, instruction, and results. At their height in the 1930s there were as many as 127,500 boards. Some sparsely populated states had more school board members than teachers. For much of their history, the boards presided over school systems serving agrarian and industrial economies. See also National Association of State Boards of Education BNF : cb16909447g ( data ) NDL : 00567153 References Jump up ^ url = http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=66423636&site=eds-live&scope=site This article relating to education is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Board_of_education&oldid=811158635 '' Categories : School boards Education stubs Hidden categories : Articles with limited geographic scope from August 2016 USA - centric Articles needing additional references from September 2016 All articles needing additional references Articles with multiple maintenance issues Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers All stub articles Talk About Wikipedia Nederlands 日本 語 Svenska తెలుగు اردو ייִדיש Edit links This page was last edited on 19 November 2017, at 22 : 01. About Wikipedia

Question: what is the purpose of the board of education
Answer: determine educational policy in a small regional area, such as a city, county, state or province