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Lemon vs Kurtzman
The Supreme Court rules that state aid for the parochial schools be allowed because of the entanglement of church and state. -
The First Public School opens in Boston
In 1821, the English Classical School opened the first public high school in America with 101 male students in Boston. By the 1870's high school were slowly spreading around the United States with 500 schools. -
Bureau of Indian Affairs off- reservation boarding school
In 1864, the government started these boarding schools was they wanted the tribes to value and understand the American lifestyle and not their Native ways. For many people in the mid-19th century, they thought it was necessary to make these Native people " civilized" by teaching the importance of private property, wealth, and family life. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
1896 there was a US Supreme Court case, that changed racial separation by the doctrine " separate but equal". This case came to be when an African American man Homer Plessy refuged sit in the train for blacks. -
Pierce vs Society of Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary
In 1925, the US supreme court ruled that by law all children are to attend public schools. But the parents of the student could make the educational decisions for their child. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
The Supreme court ruled that segregation in schools is unequal and they should be abolished. -
Title IX
This act bans sex discrimination in educational institutions that receive federal funding. -
Education for All Handicapped Children Act
This act allows schools to provide special education services for students with disabilities. -
Wallance vs Jaffree
1985 the US Supreme Court authorized a minute period of silence for all public schools for meditation or voluntary prayer. Part of the ruling was influenced because no doing this violates the First Amendment right. -
No Child Left Behind
This act was put in by the George Bush administration in 2002 until 2015. This was made for K to 12th grades to hold schools and teachers accountable for how the students learned and achieved.
