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Massachusetts Bay Colony's General Court wants every town that has 50 families to have an elementary school and wants the towns that have 100 families to have a Latin school so the kids in those towns can learn how to read the Bible.
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Thomas Jefferson creates a system which seperates kids that should get an education and those which he though should go straight to work. He called this system a two-track educational system.
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A law was passed which allowed the "Northwest Territory" to take a survey to decide what Ohio should do as a state. As a result of the survey, "townships" were created which allowed a school area in each town which needed a school.
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The New York Public School Society started having one teacher teach a bunch of kids. The teacher would focus on teaching the students that were older and rely on them to teach the younger kids.
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The Boston Town Meeting was givien a petition to have schools that were public and free to everyone.
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Boston English was the first public high school in the United States to open.https://www.raceforward.org/research/reports/historical-timeline-public-education-us
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Massachusetts passed a law allowing anyone and everyone to go to public school for free.
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Southern states made laws which didn't allow kids or even adults in slavery to learn how to read. https://www.raceforward.org/research/reports/historical-timeline-public-education-us
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Both men were killed in Texas during the Battle of the Alamo.
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Children that refused to go to school had to go to a Reform School at Westboro in Massachusetts. In 1848, the school opened and was a place that taught students at the same time they were almost being punished.
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Massachusetts passed a law which was suppose to make the kids of the immigrants have "restraint" within themselves so they didn't add to the different issues.
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The African Americans bring education to the South.
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Native Americans couldn't be taught the different information in their own language which was made illegal by Congress.
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Educational school boards that were the top biggest, are cut in half.https://www.raceforward.org/research/reports/historical-timeline-public-education-us
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One outcome of Plessy v. Ferguson was that the southern states created and passed a law which made the public schools to have segregation between the different races of people.
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Unequal pay for teachers was a huge debate between the white teachers and black teachers in the south.
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Supreme Court made segregated schools known that they were unequal and that they shouldn't be segregated.
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Little Rock, Arkansas had the National Guard come to take away nine African Americans from the school and prevet them from trying to go to a white school.
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Parents of African Americans and the white teacher have a debate over who has control in the school districts. The teachers then go on strike and the schools shut down.
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Richard Nikon's appointees made by the Supreme Court ruled that schools can't be desegregated which allows students of one color to go to one school as the others go to another school.
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California created and passed a proposition 187 that didn't let "undocumented immigrants'" children to attend public schools.
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This law made action in public education not acceptable. After California made this a law, several other states did the same thing. https://www.raceforward.org/research/reports/historical-timeline-public-education-us
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Ron Unz made a law in June that made bilingual education in the classrooms illegal.
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