Landmark Legislation Impact in Education

By ariaanrg
  • The Boston Latin School

    The Boston Latin School

    The Boston Latin School was the first public school in the U.S, Boston Massachusetts. The Boston Latin School was a Boys-only school.
  • Basic Education required in Massachusetts by colony

    Basic Education required in Massachusetts by colony

    First law requiring that children be taught to read and write, believed the well-being of individuals depended on people literate enough to read the Bible and laws of the land.
  • First Academy for girls opens in Philadelphia

    First Academy for girls opens in Philadelphia

    First time girls given opportunity to learn basic skills. John Poor established the Young Ladies' Academy of Philadelphia which would become the first chartered female academy in the U.S

  • Mississippi College grants a degree to a woman

    Back then women were only given a certificate but not a degree, Mississippi College became the first coeducational college in the U.S to grant a degree to a woman. Alice Robinson and Catherine Hall were granted degrees in December 1831.

  • Laws against teaching slaves to read and write

    Most states except Maryland, Kentucky, and Tennessee passed laws against teaching slaves to read and write, punishable by a fine of 100 pounds and 6 months in prison.
  • Horace Mann became Secretary of Education

    Horace Mann became Secretary of Education

    Known to be father of the common school movement. Common schools - for schools to be free to all white children and for schools to be funded with property tax. Public schools are still being funded by property taxes today known as local funding. Now schools are also being funded by federal and state as well not just local.
  • Nation's First Compulsory Education Law

    Nation's First Compulsory Education Law

    Massachusetts passes the nation's first compulsory education law which required children seven to fourteen to attend school.
  • First school for freed people in North Carolina

    First school for freed people in North Carolina

    An Army chaplain named Vincent Colyer took care of escaped slaves. Slaves were given jobs and had camps set up for them, however that was not enough to Colyer eyes. Colyer believed they needed more than temporary needs and that they needed to have an education. The first school open for freed people was on Roanoke Island and were taught by soldiers.

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

  • Brown v. Board

    Brown v. Board

    Public schools became open to all people no matter what race. Even though schools were being desegregated it took years to finally desegregate the last school called Cleveland High School in Cleveland which happened in 2016.

  • Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972

  • Education of All Handicapped Children's Act

  • Plyler v. Doe

  • Arlene PFEIFER, Delmont PFEIFER v. MARION CENTER AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al.

  • Rose v. Council for Better Education

  • Proposition 187 passes in California

    Proposition 187 passes in California

    California preposition 187, making it illegal for children of undocumented immigrants to attend to a public school. Establish a state-run citizenship screening system preventing undocumented immigrants from using non emergency health care, public education and other services.
  • Santa Fe School District v. Doe

    Santa Fe School District v. Doe

    The Santa Fe School District allowed a prayer to take place before the students football games, which upset a lot of students and made them feel that the district was endorsing a religion.
  • No Child Left Behind Act

    No Child Left Behind Act

    The No Child Left Behind Act is to help the disadvantage students to reach the same goals as the advantaged students. To provide all children to have equal and high quality opportunities in education and to close the gap in the achievement gap.

  • Board of Ed. of Independent School Dist. No. 92 of Pottawatomie Cty. v. Earls