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The common schools would be supported by the property taxes paid by the locals so there would be no charge for the students. The school was only open to white kids. In the early 1830’s, a man named Horace Mann, proposed the “Great Equalizer,” which he convinced everyone that there should be common schools available all over because they are teaching the generation of the future. This started the public schools that are known today.
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National Education Association or NEA was created in 1857. This organization made policies and therefore in 1916 the American federal of Teachers was created. This union was created to represent the teachers.
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The Civil Rights Movement enlisted the federal government in the effort to equalize educational opportunities for children of color.
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A young girl was having to walk a long way to get to her colored school, but she lived remarkably close to an all-white school and tried to go there, but they would not let her, so they took them to court.
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ESEA and Head Start were able to give free lunches to those how were not able to pay for their own. They also gave attention for the special education department. This is all a part of President Johnson’s war against poverty.
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Title 9 protected girls against discrimination in schools, colleges and universities. This link contains more in-depth information:
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No Child Left Behind was a law signed by George W. Bush and it was created to get rid and hopefully prevent the difference between minority and majority students. It was to make sure that all students were given the same opportunities as the next person.
Think link is a website with valuable information: https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/brown-v-board-of-education-of-topeka -
The coronavirus pandemic causes schools to close their doors and make student do schooling from home. Most schools were able to go full online due to abundance of technology now adays, but some of the less fortunate school were not able to do anything. This was the first-time teachers and students were ever forced to learn classroom material online and still try to operate as a normal class.
