Education, then and now.

First Indian school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Oct 23, 1879

Carlisle Indian Industrial school was a boarding school for indians, and the first of its kind in history.

Booker T. Washington becomes first principal.

Oct 23, 1881

Booker T. Washingtom becomes the first principal, of what later becomes Tuskegee University.

Plesy vs Fergison

Oct 24, 1896

Passes laws approving segregation in schools

Association of American Universities

Oct 23, 1900

The Association of American Universities is an international organization of leading research universities devoted to keeping a strong system of education.

First public community college

Oct 23, 1901

Columbia State Community College

AFT and AERA are founded.

Oct 23, 1916

American Federation of Teachers and American Educational Research Association are formed

Smith Hughes Act

Oct 24, 1917

provides federal funding for vocational education

Funding transportation

Oct 23, 1919

All states pass law to fund transportation (busses.)

Progressive Education Association

Oct 24, 1919

This is founded with the purpose of reforming American Education

Scopes Monkey Trial

Oct 23, 1925

First SAT

Oct 23, 1926

Scholastic Aptitude Test

Black Tuesday

Oct 23, 1929

Brown vs Board of education

Oct 24, 1954

segregated schools are not equal, and must be abolished.

Miliken vs Bradley

Oct 24, 1974

Schools can not be desegrated across school districts, because it will segregate inner city blacks from rich whites

Prop. 187

Oct 24, 1994

Passed in california making it illegal for children of undocumented immagrants to attend public school.