Public education is legally a function of the state. In Nebraska, broad powers are delegated to local school units governed by a Board of Education. The Lincoln Board of Education therefore derives its powers and certain of its responsibilities through legislative enactments and by constitutional requirements of the state.
The School District of Lincoln, officially designated as the Lancaster County School District 001, is a corporation for public purposes created by the State of Nebraska, governed by state statute, and legally separate and distinct from the government of the City of Lincoln. As such it is one unit of the state school system. The general school laws and particularly chapter 79 apply to the Lincoln District. Lincoln is classified as a Class IV District.
Inasmuch as the organization, management and control of the District is vested by law in the Board, the Board hereby establishes and will continue to maintain policies, amending them as needed, to guide its internal operations.
Those policies shall be drafted, adopted, and amended with full consideration for the Board’s wish to provide education of the best obtainable quality for the residents of the District within the limitations of the ability to support such education.