The 1870 Education Act had two aims: to induce children to attend schools and to provide good schools throughout the country. This latter aim was to be achieved by filling up the gaps in the voluntary system then prevailing. Where there was a...

Set up in 1900 in order to meet the need for a single central authority in education, one of its main functions was to put into effect the provisions of the 1902 Education Act and to ensure that the new local education authorities (LEAs) provided...

A board of education or a school board or school committee is the title of the board of directors of a school, local school district or higher administrative level. The elected council helps determine educational policy in a small regional area, such as...