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Home Dictionary Name: school districtdistricts, municipal utilities, and school districts).
districts, municipal utilities, and school districts). Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts ...
school district
school district A public and quasi-municipal corporation, organized by legislative authority comprising a defined territory, for the erection, maintenance, government and support of the public schools within its territory. Source: FindLaw ...
School
School. See EDUCATION; PUBLIC SCHOOLS; RE-FORMATORY SCHOOLS; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Education.'An institution of learning and education, esp. for children, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1346.School Attendance Committee, a committee appointed annually (in 'school districts' not within the jurisdiction of a 'school board') for the purpose of enforcing the Elementary Education Act, 1876, by proceeding against parents who neglected to send their children to a public elementary school. The duties of this Committee were transferred to the local education authorities by the Education Act, 1902. This Act was repealed by the Education Act, 1921, but the responsibilities of the local education authorities in this respect were confirmed (s. 43).School Board, a body corporate of persons elected triennially, for the purpose of managing 'public elementary schools' within their respective districts [(English) Elementary Education Acts, 1870 and 1873]. School Boards were abolished by the (Eng...
gerrymander
gerrymander [Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814) + salamander; from the shape of an election district formed during Gerry's governorship of Massachusetts] 1 : the act or method of gerrymandering 2 : a district or pattern of districts varying greatly in size or population as a result of gerrymandering vt -dered -der·ing 1 : to divide (a territorial unit) into election districts to give one political party an electoral majority in a large number of districts while concentrating the voting strength of the opposition in as few districts as possible 2 : to divide (an area) into political units to give special advantages to one group [ a school district] ...
local educational agency
local educational agency School or school district. Also called LEA. This term is used for deciding tuition charges for secondary school students in F-1 visa status. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
public school
public school A school established under the laws of the state and regulated by local authorities in various districts, counties or towns, maintained at the public expense by taxation, and open to residents' children. Source: FindLaw ...
Approved schools
Approved schools. These schools are schools intended for the education and training of persons to be sent there in pursuance of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (see s. 79(1) and approved by the Secretary of State. They are regulated by ss. 79-83 of that Act. Local authorities may under certain circumstances undertake the purchase, establishment, building, alteration, enlargement, rebuilding or management of an approved school (s. 80). The Secretary of State may classify approved schools as he thinks best calculated to secure that a person sent to an approved school is sent to the school appropriate to his case. With certain exceptions the managers of an approved school are bound to accept any person sent there in pursuance of the Act (s. 81). The expression 'approved school' was first used in the Children and Young Persons Act, 1932, which was declared to apply in relation to a school which at the commencement of this Act is a certified reformatory school or a certified indust...
Endowed schools
Endowed schools. Schools wholly or partly maintained out of an endowment. The (English) Endowed Schools Acts are 23 Vict. c. 11; 31 & 32 Vict. c. 32; 32 & 33 Vict. c. 56; 36 & 37 Vict. c. 87; 38 & 39 Vict. c. 29; and 42 & 43 Vict. c. 66; since which statutes their temporary provisions have been continued by (English) Annual Expiring Laws Continuance Acts. The principal Act is that of 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 56), which provided for the reorganization of endowed schools generally (ex-cepting those subject to the (English) Public Schools Act, 1868, as to which see PUBLIC SCHOOLS) through the medium of 'schemes' to be framed by the 'Endowed Schools Commissioners,' whose powers were transferred by the (English) Act of 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 87), to the Charity Com-missioners, and are now vested in the Board of Education. As to the dismissal of masters, see the (English) Endowed Schools (Masters) Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 39), and Wright v. Zetland (Marquess), (1908) 1 KB 63. As to inspection o...
Ragged Schools
Ragged Schools, were exempted from poor and other rates by the Sunday and Ragged Schools Rating (Exemption from Rating) Act, 1869, in which a 'ragged school' means:Any school used for the gratuitous education of children and young persons of the poorest classes, and for the holding of classes and meetings in furtherance of the same object, and without any pecuniary benefit being derived therefrom except to the teacher or teachers employed.The Act also gives the same advantage to Sunday-schools, i.e., schools giving religious instruction to the young without deriving pecuniary profit. Ragged schools have ceased to exist since the establishment of free State education. See EDUCA-TION....
tax base
tax base 1 : a sum (as the total assessed valuation of property in a county) used as the basis of taxation 2 : the source of tax revenue for a governmental body [change the tax base of a school district to reduce the property tax burden] ...
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