school board
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2.3
- noun
- /skuːl bɔːrd/
- US
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junta escolar
- It's the local school board that decides the role of police officers in individual schools.
- school board members
- a school board meeting
- school board policy
She works for the school board, friends with Kitten Hill.
- She works for the school board, friends with Kitten Hill.
- And now one school board is going after a surprising new target.
- That same day, he made a claim of workplace harassment to school board officials.
- And so I went home and I looked up in Canada and US, we have school boards.
- It's the local school board that decides the role of police officers in individual schools.
- You know, if you're like the head of the school board, even in a big city, what is the cut off?
- Long story short, the photo somehow got into the hands of the school board and Sarah was fired for, quote, unprofessional behavior.
- It's controlled by your local, mostly your school board, dad, dad, it's the school board.
- George Washington, Thomas Jefferson No cancelled by the school board of San Francisco.
Examples
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And now, with the school board's actions, we've been given no choice but to seek a legal solution.
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During the meeting, the school board discussed the proposed changes to the curriculum.
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Just I mean, it would be actually pretty simple thing for a school board to do.
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You know how much a school board member make?
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I talked to the school board.
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Will you at least take it to the school board?
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The school board accepted my transfer request.
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Tomorrow afternoon, there's a school board meeting.
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In Board of Education v. Pico, a school board attempted to remove books from a school library.
Academic text (2015) -
Ms. Larsen: They're going to discuss it at the school board meeting tomorrow night.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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3.2
A group of people chosen to manage an organization
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An official group of people who manage local public schools
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A group of people who direct and make important decisions for an organization
How Powerful
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'school' (an educational institution) with 'board' (a committee that oversees an institution); together they naturally denote the committee that oversees a school system. This noun+noun compositional pattern is common across languages and follows standard English compound semantics, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will likely understand it.
Etymology
School board comes from the old image of people meeting around a board, a table, to talk and decide about a school. So school board now means the group of people who meet to 'manage' and 'make rules' for local schools.