Outline for Review Civics

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART II ?LOCAL GOVERNMENT 9. In the United States the following Divisions For The Pueposes Of Government are to be distinguished: (1) School District, (2) Town or Township, (3) Village, (4) City, (5) County, (6) State, (7) United States. Frequently two local divisions (e.g. School District and Town, School District and City, City and Town or County) have the same boundaries, and then the functions of the two may be merged. In some states one or more of these divisions, especially the school district and town, hardly exist; but each existing division has its own functions and its own officials. Taking the School District first ? the New York system is typical. For purposes of education, outside the cities and larger villages, the state is divided into school districts in which all citizens over twenty-one years old ? both men and women ?who send children to school or pay school taxes may take part in the school district meetings. At the Annual Meeting the following officers are elected to hold office for one year: one or three Trustees, a Clerk, a Collector, and a Treasurer. The district meeting also selects school sites, votes taxes to pay for school sites, school buildings, supplies, teachers' salaries, etc. These meetings are called by the Trustee, who is also charged with the general administration of the district school, subject to state law and general state supervision. In New York, two or more districts may vote to con- 14 solidate and establish a Union Free School and elect a Union Board of Education of from three to nine members. 10. Three Systems Of Local Government. For purposes of general local government, three systems are to be distinguished in the United States: (1) the New England System, in which the town is the real local unit; (2) the Southern Sys...