school division
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[edit]Noun
[edit]school division (plural school divisions)
- (Canada, Philippines, Virginia, historically Ceylon) An administrative unit responsible for public primary and secondary schools in a particular locality; the area under the jurisdiction of such an administrative unit.
- Synonym: school district
- 1851, E. Ryerson, Annual Report of the Normal, Model and Common Schools in Upper Canada for the Year 1850[1], Toronto: Lovell and Gibson, page 204:
- The system of Free Schools may also be commended upon the ground of its tendency to promote unity and mutual affection among the inhabitants of each school division.
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[edit]References
[edit]- “school division” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.