board of education

1. 1.

   a board in charge of local public schools

   Synonymsschool board

   Broaderboard

Questions about board of education

What does board of education mean?

board of education means "a board in charge of local public schools".

What is another word for board of education?

Close synonyms include school board. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is board of education a common word?

board of education is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.