Independent school districts were created in Texas during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to __________.
A. place schools under the local control of county and city governments
B. insulate school governance from partisan politics
C. prevent school officials from taxing the residents of these districts
D. serve the special interests of a small number of influential people
Answer: B
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