Chapter 9 (Governance and Finance)

Because the governer and legislators have an entire state to run, they turn most of the responsiblity for steering their state's schools to the state board of education, the legal governing body that exercises general control and supervision of the schools in a state. A state board of education makes policy; the state office of education is responsible for implementing poilcy within a state on a day-to-day basis. A school district is an administrative unit within a state that is defined by geogrphical boundaries and is legally responisble for the public education of children within those boundaries. There are many important people that make up the school: a local school board, a superintendent, a principle and many more. Some schools are funded in differnent ways and there are even charter schools.