Napoleon III was indispensable to unification of the Italian states. Italian Unification could not be brought about without him after 1848. This may be demonstrated at Plombieres plombiÃ¨res and the following war of. 1859
Definition of public school for English Language Learners. : 1  a school that gets money from and is controlled by a local government. : 2  a private school that prepares students for college or for public service.
In most states, state law delegates to state boards of education the authority to establish or adopt academic standards for statewide K-12 public education systems.