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America's earliest law relating to education that required a town of fifty or more families to hire a primary school teacher for children. Towns of 100 or more families were required to appoint a Latin teacher.
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The Northeast began to establish what were referred to by Horace Mann as common schools that were publicly funded and therefore free to families and accessible to all children.
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In Massachusetts, the first state board of education was created to oversee schools and the quality of its teachers and develop curricula.
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Founded in Lexington, Massachusetts and promoted and developed by Horace Mann as state-funded post-secondary institutions. Mann helped build new and bigger schools that arranged children into grades based on their age.
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Said to be one of the most important rulings in America's progress towards equalizing education. This case ruled that segrated schools based on race "are not equal and cannot be made equal, and hence they are deprived of the equal protection of the laws,' according to Chief Justice Earl Warren.
