Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) or Special School District Number 1 is a school district that covers all of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
 Minneapolis Public Schools enroll 36,370 students in public primary and secondary schools.
 The district administers about one hundred public schools including forty-five elementary schools, seven middle schools, seven high schools, eight special education schools, eight alternative schools, nineteen contract alternative schools and five charter schools. With authority granted by the state legislature, the school board makes policy, selects the superintendent, and oversees the district's budget, curriculum, personnel, and facilities.
 Students speak ninety different languages at home and most school communications are printed in English, Hmong, Spanish, and Somali.
Education in the British Virgin Islands is largely free and is a requirement for children ages 5 to 17.
 The British Virgin Islands has a total of 15 public primary schools and 4 secondary public schools.
 In addition to the public schools, there are 10 primary private schools and 3 secondary private schools.
 The School year is from September to June.
 The British Virgin Islands is a part of the British Overseas Territories and therefore the educational system is very similar to the traditional learning system in the United Kingdom.
 Primary schools are focused on establishing the basics of an academic curriculum and host students between the ages of 5 to 12.
 After the completion of Primary school, students move on to Secondary school.
 Secondary school is for students between the ages of 13 and 17.
 Following the completion of secondary education, students may write their Caribbean secondary education certificate examination.
 There are approximately 2,700 students who attend primary school for the first 7 years of their required education, however less than 1,800 students successfully finish the following 5 required years of secondary school and complete their certificate exam.
 Tertiary Education is by no means required in the British Virgin Islands.
 Students who chose to continue their education after Secondary Education may move on to an additional 2 years of schooling.
 After 2 years of Tertiary Education is completed, students may take their Caribbean advanced placement examinations.
 Passing the exams entitles students the right to continue their studies even further at the University of the Virgin Island.
 This University is the only tertiary education institution in the British Virgin Islands.
 At the University, students can obtain associate, bachelors, and master's degrees in the departments of business, education, liberal arts and social sciences, or science and mathematic.
The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD or UT Dallas) is a public research university in the University of Texas System.
 The main campus is in the Richardson, Texas, Telecom Corridor, 18 mi north of downtown Dallas.
 The institution, established in 1961 as the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest and later renamed the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies (SCAS), began as a research arm of Texas Instruments.
 In 1969, the founders bequeathed SCAS to the state of Texas officially creating The University of Texas at Dallas.
Novice Gail Fawcett (March 29, 1909 – June 19, 1998), born in Gambier, Ohio, was the 8th President of Ohio State University.
 He received a Bachelor of Science from Kenyon College in 1931 and a Master's degree from Ohio State in 1937.
 He worked toward, but never completed a Ph.D.
 A teacher and coach, Fawcett was superintendent of Gambier Public Schools (1934–1938), Defiance Schools (1938–1943), Bexley Schools (1943–47), assistant superintendent in Akron City Schools (1947–1949), and superintendent of Columbus Public Schools in 1949.
 The Fawcett Center at Ohio State University and Fawcett Hall at Wright State University are named in his honor.
Sudie Lawrence Williams (November 11, 1872–July 21, 1940) was a music educator in the public schools of Dallas, Texas.
 She was born in Bellville, Texas to Dr. and Mrs. Otis Laurence Williams.
 She began teaching in the Dallas schools in 1894, became assistant supervisor of music for the schools in 1910, acting supervisor in 1913 (the year the Dallas schools acquired their first phonograph), and supervisor in 1914.
Baltimore City Public Schools, also referred to as Baltimore City Public School System, BCPSS, BCPS and City Schools, is a public school district in the state of Maryland, United States.
 It serves the youth for the city of Baltimore (in distinction to the separate and "younger" public school system (district) for the surrounding county of Baltimore, known as the Baltimore County Public Schools [BCoPS]).
 Traditionally however, the Baltimore City Public Schools system has usually never referred to itself as a "district," as the operation of the schools was synonymous with the city of Baltimore.
 Its headquarters are located on 200 East North Avenue at North Calvert Street in the "Dr. Alice G. Pinderhughes Administration Building".
The University of Mumbai is one of the first state universities of India and the oldest in Maharashtra.
Board of Education v. Walters was a 1979 Ohio Supreme Court case relating to the funding of primary and secondary schools in Ohio.
 The Court ruled that the method of funding public schools at the time was constitutional despite disparities in per-pupil education spending between different districts.
 Article VI of the Ohio Constitution states that the state must provide an "adequate system of public schools."
 The ruling overturned a previous trial court ruling that the State's school-funding system violated the Constitution of Ohio's requirement of providing a thorough and efficient system of public education.
 "Board of Education v. Walters" is one of the cases that played a role leading to "DeRolph v. State of Ohio" in 1997, which found the model of funding for public schools in Ohio to be unconstitutional.
Charter schools operate with considerably more independence than traditional public schools.
 However, Massachusetts has two kinds of charter schools - Commonwealth Charters and Horace Mann Charters.
 Horace Mann charter schools differ from Commonwealth charter schools as they must be located within a school district.
 Both kinds of charter schools are free to structure their curriculum and school environment; for instance, many charter schools fit more instructional hours into a year by running longer school days and providing instruction on weekends and during the summer.
 Because few charter schools are unionized, they can hire and fire teachers and administrative staff without regard to the collectively bargained seniority and tenure provisions that constrain such decisions in most public schools.
 Although charter students made up only 2.9 percent of U.S. public school enrollment in 2008–2009, charter enrollment has grown rapidly and seems likely to accelerate in the near future.
 The growth of charter schools is an important component of the contemporary education reform movement's pursuit of accountability and flexibility in public education.
 Proponents see charter schools' freedom from regulation as a source of educational innovation, with the added benefit of providing a source of competition that may prompt innovation and improvement in the rest of the public system.
 At the same time, charter schools are controversial because, after a transition period in which the state provides subsidies, they receive a tuition payment for each enrolled student paid by students' home districts.
 In Massachusetts, tuition payments are determined largely by the average per-pupil expenditure in sending districts.
 Not surprisingly, therefore, public school districts are concerned about the revenue lost when their students enroll in charter schools.
In the United Kingdom, independent schools (also private schools) are fee-paying private schools, governed by an elected board of governors and independent of many of the regulations and conditions that apply to state-funded schools.
 For example, pupils do not have to follow the National Curriculum.
 Many of the older, expensive and more exclusive schools catering for the 13–18 age-range in England and Wales are known as public schools as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868.
 The term "public" being derived from the fact that they were open to pupils regardless of where they lived or their religion (while in many other countries a public school is run by the state or municipality.)
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 Prep schools, (or preparatory school) educate younger children up to the age of 13 to "prepare" them for entry to the public schools and other independent schools.
 Some former grammar schools converted to an independent fee paying model following the 1965 Circular 10/65 which marked the end of their state funding, others converted into comprehensive schools.

Question: Are the University of Mumbai and University of Texas at Dallas both state/public schools?
Answer: yes