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Free Public Schooling
In 1790, Pennsylvania became the first state to require free public schooling. How ever, this was only allowed or offered for “poor” families in assumption that the wealthy families could afford to pay for the schooling. Following shortly after Pennsylvania was New York in 1805. This is important to the history of education because children shouldn’t be denied the opportunity to have an education due to poverty. Without free public education many children today wouldn’t have the opportunity -
Brown vs. The Board of Education of Topeka
Brown vs. the Board of Education is a combination of 5 different cases. Although each case had different facts the main issue was the same; the constitutional segregation in public schools. Warren said “We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal” Without this event, schools could still be segregated today, although theres still progress to make we would be set back even more. -
IDEA-https://www.apa.org/advocacy/education/idea
The Education of All Handicapped Children Act was put into place by President Ford, to provide free education to all children with disabilities as well as give the parents a voice in their education. The schools must evaluate these students free of cost and provide them with special education and services like speech, to meet their special needs. Without this event children with special needs could still be looked at as unable to learn and be denied something as simple as an education today. -
No Child Left Behind-https://www.k12.wa.us/policy-funding/grants-grant-management/every-student-succeeds-act-essa-implementation/elementary-and-secondary-education-act-esea/no-child-left-behind-act-2001
NCLB Act was signed so students in poverty, minorities, children with special needs, or children who speak a limited amount of English have the same opportunities. There are 4 Major focuses in the act, Accountability, ensure students achieve academic proficiency, Flexibility, to be flexible with funding, Research-Based Education, make sure programs are effective, and Parent Options, increase the choices available to parents. This allowed all students to have an education and a successful future. -
Every Student Succeeds Act-https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/your-childs-rights/basics-about-childs-rights/every-student-succeeds-act-essa-what-you-need-to-know
ESSA replaced NCLB. It is similar to NCLB but revised. The target students are the same, students in poverty, minorities, special education students, and students with limited English skills.This allows states to decide education plans for schools, and parents to have a voice in the plan. The plan includes academic standards, annual testing, school accountability, goals for achievement, plans for support/improvements, and report cards. With times changing it is important that education does too.