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First public school opens in Boston
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Massachusetts Bay Colony passes first educational law
"all children should be taught to read and write, thus founding the idea on what would become U.S. soil that educating youth is a public responsibility." Schneider, Mercedes K.. School Choice: The End of Public Education? (p. 7). Teachers College Press. Kindle Edition. -
Massachusetts becomes first..
state to pass a law providing for comprehensive education directed by a town committee -
First state board of education
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Massachusetts abolishes segregation
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Department of Education Act
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Brown vs. Board of Education
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Massive Resistance
Harry F. Byrd, Sr. called for "massive resistance" to desegregation in a press release. -
General Assembly pushed back-door segregation
"scholarship" funding, and up to 25% tax deductions for supporting private schools -
Title IV Act
helped to end school segregation -
Biloxi and Jackson school districts forced to desegregate
U.S. District Judge Sidney Mize ordered the districts to submit plans for integration that would be effective July 1964 -
Title IX of the Education Amendments
helped end school segregation based on sex -
San Antonio Independent School District vs. Rodriguez
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Department of Education becomes a cabinet-level department
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Reauthorization of ESEA in the form of NCLB
shifted views from civil rights to school/teacher accountability