School District Definition

School District Sentence Examples

• For each school district there is a board of education consisting of a president and two commissioners, each elected for a term of four years, one commissioner every two years.

• The indebtedness of a county, municipality or school district is limited to 5% of the value of its taxable property.

• The first public school law, passed in 1829, was based largely on the principle of " local option," each school district being left free to determine the character of its own school or even to decide, if it wished, against having any school at all.

• Although the electors of each school district have ample powers reserved to them, in actual practice matters are attended to chiefly by an elected board of directors.

• Any two or more adjoining school districts may unite to form a union free school district, and in any village or union free school district having a population of 5000 or more the board of education may appoint a superintendent of schools.