Education system

  • First Latin grammar school is established

  • Harvard college, the first higher education institution

  • Thomas Jefferson proposes 2 track educational system, "the laboring and the learned"

  • 1st public high school opens. Boston English high school

  • Kentucky appoints 1st school supper intendent.

  • 1st community college opens in Illinois.

  • Smith Hughes act, provides funding for agricultural and vocational education.

  • All states have laws providing funding for transportation.

  • John f. Kennedy is assasinated all schools close.

  • No child left behind act is passed by George w. Bush.