Roosevelt Union Free School District
The Roosevelt Union Free School District (RUFSD) is a public school district serving much of the Greater Roosevelt area in the Town of Hempstead, in Nassau County, on the South Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The district primarily serves the unincorporated hamlet and CDP of Roosevelt, in addition to small portions of the unincorporated hamlet and CDP of Baldwin and the Incorporated Village of Freeport. it was the first and only school district in New York to ever have been taken over by the state.Hu, Winnie"Transition Leader Is Named for Ailing Roosevelt Schools" ''The New York Times'', May 22, 2007. Accessed October 29, 2007. "The Roosevelt district, which is in Nassau County and has 2,800 students, is the only one of the state’s more than 700 school systems to be directly overseen by state education officials, who intervened because of financial problems and poor student performance." However, in 2013, the state gave control back to the district. His ...
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State School
State schools (in England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand) or public schools (Scottish English and North American English) are generally primary or secondary educational institution, schools that educate all students without charge. They are funded in whole or in part by taxation. State funded schools exist in virtually every country of the world, though there are significant variations in their structure and educational programmes. State education generally encompasses primary and secondary education (4 years old to 18 years old). By country Africa South Africa In South Africa, a state school or government school refers to a school that is state-controlled. These are officially called public schools according to the South African Schools Act of 1996, but it is a term that is not used colloquially. The Act recognised two categories of schools: public and independent. Independent schools include all private schools and schools that are privately governed. Indepen ...
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