-
Elementary Education Begins
The General Court of Massachusettes decided that towns of 50 families must begin the elemantary school program, and that towns of 100 families must provide a Lstin school. The goal being that all Puritan children read the Bible and learn about their religion. -
Required Land for Local Schools
The Continental Congress passes a law that all of the NorthWest Territory townships must reserve land for local schools. From the 'land grants" came the US system of "land grant universities", the state public universities that exsist today; -
Pennsylvania State Calls for Free Schooling
Pennsylvania State Constitution calls for free public educationfor the poor families. It was expected that rich families pay for their childrens education. -
The First High School is Born
In 1820, the first public high school is founded in Boston, Masachusettes. The English High School. -
MASACHUSETTES PULLS THROUGH
Masachusettes makes all grades of public schooling free of charge. -
Southern Education (1865-1877)
African Americans mobilize to bring public education to the South for the first time. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
The US Supreme Court legalizes segragation, meaning all public schools would be segregated. -
Scholarship Uprising
In 1945, after World War II The G.I Bill of Rights gives thousands of working class men scholarships to college for the first time in American History. -
BROWN V. BOARD OF ED.
The Supreme Court unaminously agrees that segregated schooling is inherently unequal and must be abolished. -
No Child Left Behind
All students areexpected to meet or exceed state standards in reading and math by 2004
