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Boston Latin School
Is the nation's first school. The goal of this school was to prepare boys for college and the ministry. -
Passage of the Massachusetts Bay School Law
It required parents and people who owned slaves at the time to teach their children, apprentices, and servants on how to read and write. This set the stage for school later on in history. -
Passage of the Massachusetts law of 1647
It required every town that had at least 50 families to have a schoolmaster and for that schoolmaster to teach their children to read and write. Every town with 100 families had to set them in grammar school to prepare boys for college. -
First public school in US
First ever public school only allowing boys however to prepare them for industry and business. Girl were not allowed until 1970s. -
Free Public Education Launch
Laws make all public-school grades free to all children. Also obligated that towns of more than 500 families had to have public highschool available to all. They were still at the time segregated until 1855. -
First State Board of Education
Horace Mann was made the secretary of the new Massachusetts State Board of Education. His ideas become the foundation for today's public education system that is see across the world. -
Enacts the First Compulsory School Attendance Law
New York passed a compulsory school attendance law in 1854, and by 1918 all states had some form of compulsory attendance. -
Establishment of the Federal Office of Education
Office of Education was founded to collect information about the nation's schools. They then sought to help states and helped to establish their own education systems. -
Passage of National School Lunch Act
Established National School Lunch Program. This was a program that provided federally funded meal program to provide low-cost or even free lunches for students with low-income. -
Brown v. Board
Public schools may not prevent minority students from attending white schools. Made statement of saying that schools that are separate based on color is then unequal.