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Boys Latin School
The first school in Massachusetts to ever prepare boys for college. -
Boston opens Americans first public school
The Boston Latin school was the first established public school for boys in Boston Massachusetts. -
Early Colonial Education
Puritans believed education was important so people could read the bible, and they taught math alongside. -
Common School Movement
Begun by Horace Mann, it was the effort to fund schools in every community with public dollars. -
Quaker Established Friends Publlic School
The first elementary school established. -
Progressive Era
This was political and social reform movement that brought major changes to the United States. -
Civils Right Movement
Thus was a social rights movement that had non-violent protests and peacefully didn't follow unfair rules so African Americans could gain the same rights as white Americans. -
Brown vs Board of education
This was a supreme court that said laws declared that students couldn't go to the same public schools as it was unconstitutional. -
Engel vs Vitale
This landmark case prohibits a school from requiring prayer due to a violation of the First Amendment. -
Tinker vs Des Moines
A case that established a students right to express themselves in the classroom -
Lemon vs Kurtzman
The supreme court made a three-part test to determine if the government actions violate the established clause of the first amendment. -
Board of Education vs Rowley
The supreme Court stated that schools are required to provide personalized instruction so each disabled child can exceed. -
Plyer vs Doe
Supreme Court ruled that states cannot deny public education to undocumented immigrant children. -
New jersey vs TLO
A decision made by the supreme court to the United states that a public-school official can search a student without a search warrant and to what extent. -
United states vs Lopez
Supreme Court stated congress couldn't use the commerce clause to justify banning guns in school zones because having a gun didn't directly affect interstate commerce. -
No Child Left Behind
A federal law in the US gave money for extra educational assistance so poor students could go to school in exchange for good academic scores. -
No child left behind
This was the main law for k-12 general education in the US that held schools accountable for how they learned and achieved. -
Forest Grove School District vs T.A
Supreme court decided that parents with disabled children can be reimbursed for private special education if their child has previously been in public school and did not receive proper special education services.