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Massachusetts opened the first Latin school in Boston, making it the first public secondary school.
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This act requires that every town of fifty or more families needs to hire a primary school teacher and every town of one hundred or more families need to appoint a Latine teacher to prepare the men for entrance into Harvard college.
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Pennsylvania state constitution calls for free public education but only for poor children. It is expected that rich people will pay for their children's schooling.
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The U.S. Supreme Court requires California to extend public education to the children of Chinese immigrants.
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All states have laws requiring all children through elementary school to attend.
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Scholastic Aptitude Test is first administered.
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United States Supreme Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
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The federal Tribal Colleges Act establishes a community college on every Indian reservation, which allows young people to go to college without leaving their families.
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First smartboards made their way into the classrooms.
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This act was signed in my George W. Bush stating that schools will be held accountable for student achievement and penalizes schools that don't make yearly progress toward goals for NCLB.
