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Plessy v. Ferguson decision. This decision means that the federal government officially recognizes segregation as legal. The southern states pass laws requiring racial segregation in public schools.
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Technology was introduced into the classrooms.
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Hands on learning is accepted
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Women have the right to vote
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The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is first administered.
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The Great Depression begins with the stock market crash. The U.S. economy is devastated which effects the public education funding resulting in school closings, teacher layoffs, and lower salaries.
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Alvarez vs. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove (California) School District becomes the first successful school desegregation court case in the United States
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The NAACP brings a series of suits over unequal teachers' pay for Blacks and whites in southern states.
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Bill of Rights gives thousands of working class men college scholarships for the first time in U.S. history.
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The Supreme Court unanimously agrees that segregated schools are "inherently unequal" and must be abolished.
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First high school to integrate
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Bible is banned from school
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Discrimination against girls end, whether it was sports or education.
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Milliken v. Bradley. A Supreme Court made up of Richard Nixon's appointees rules that schools may not be desegregated across school districts. This effectively legally segregates students of color in inner-city districts from white students in wealthier white suburban districts.
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The Refugee Act of 1980 is signed into law by President Jimmy Carter. Building on the Immigration Act of 1965, it reforms immigration law to admit refugees for humanitarian reasons and results in the resettlement of more than three-million refugees in the United States including many children who bring special needs and issues to their classrooms.
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Proposition 187 passes in California, making it illegal for children of undocumented immigrants to attend public school.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that race cannot be a factor in assigning students to high schools.
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Alabama becomes the first state "to require public schools to check the immigration status" of students.
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President Barack Obama announces on February 9 that the the No Child Left Behind law were approved.
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Many students march against Donald Trumps new rules and opinions about gun laws and people's gender.
