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Common schools were funded by local property taxes, charged no tuition, were open to all white children. Beginning in the 1820's, Horace Mann, the "great Equalizer", convinced a nation to create a system of common schools - good schools were good business and the future of the economy and the democracy depended upon providing a "common" education to all children, no matter where they were born or the whom. The Common School is the precursor to today's public school. * Date is not exact.
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