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 the United States, public schools belong to school districts, which are governed by school boards. Each district is an independent special-purpose government, or dependent school systems, under the guidelines of state government and local school boards. A school district is a legally separate body corporate and politic.