The board directly oversees high schools and provides educational services in Hokkaido.
They oversee schools without books or windows, and teachers whose classes average 40 students and sometimes swell to 80.
Based on new district lines, they are likely to oversee schools with far more struggling students and high-poverty populations.
That was when the local boards were created to oversee the city's elementary and junior high schools, which now number 848.
The department has 96 program auditors to oversee 7,400 colleges and schools nationally.
Community school boards generally oversee only local elementary and middle schools.
The community school boards oversee the city's more than 800 elementary and junior high schools.
It also suggests changes to state law that would establish a relationship between the councils and the network leaders who oversee schools.
The 2011 debate: What should the federal role be in overseeing American schools?
The boards oversee the city's public elementary and junior high schools.