The Struggle Over Public Education in Early America Timeline Part 1

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  • The Massachusetts General Court Requires Education

  • Virginia Apprenticeship Law

    Required all boys and girls that were not being instructed, to be sent to work at public workhouses.

  • New Hampshire Becomes the First to Establish Free Public Schools in America

    New Hampshire made taxation for the support of town schools mandatory.

  • Virginia Requires Masters to Teach

  • Colonists Declare Independence

  • The Massachusetts State Constitution Requires Public School

  • Law Similar to the 1647 Colonial Legislation

  • The Legislature Sanctions the District System

  • State Allows Towns to Have the Option of Collecting Tax Revenue for Schools and Dispersing it Among Their Districts

  • New Law

    Mandates that towns appoint special committees to oversee schools, choose textbooks, and evaluate all publicly employed teachers.

  • The Free School Movement is Culminated

  • James G. Carter Leads the Campaign to Create the Massachusetts State Board of Education

  • The Massachusetts State Board of Education Bill is Enacted

    (April)