1998 Edition 1. These are under the management of education authorities, who are responsible for the allocation of funding to each school. School Boards are currently established in around three quarters of education authority schools.
Parents are in the majority.
School Boards have a duty to promote contact between parents, the school and the community, and have certain specific responsibilities such as involvement in the procedures for the appointment of senior staff and the community use of school premises. They may also take on further executive functions by delegation from their education authority. Main elections to Boards are held every two years. A small number of grant-aided schools, mainly in the special sector, are run by boards of managers who receive grants from central government. 1.4 Independent schools are run by the proprietors without any aid from public funds.