The Struggle Over Public Education in Early America Timeline Part 2

By wird_o

  • The Free School Society is (Privately) Founded

  • The New York State Legislature Established a Permanent Common School Fund

  • The Legislature Sanctions the Free School Society's Education of All Poor Children

  • 1809 Address

  • New 1813 Law

  • The 1812 Arrangement is Further Revised

  • Increasing Waves of Immigrants Enter U.S.

  • Period: to

    The 'Second Great Awakening'

  • Period: to

    New York's State Population More Than Doubled

  • Concerns Over Educating the Electorate Steadily Increases

  • Erie Canal is Completed

  • The Common Council of New York City Passes a Local Law

    Restricts religious organizations' access to funds.

  • Abolition of Parents' Tuition Payments

  • New York Has Outdistanced It's Rivals

  • A Report to the Legislature

  • The Public School Society Adopts a Resolution Abolishing Rate-Bills

  • Massachusetts Disestablishes Religion

  • Bishop John Dubois Sent a Petition to the Board of Trustees of the Public School Society

  • Horace Mann Leaves His Post as President of the Massachusetts Senate to Become the First Secretary of the State Board of Education

  • First Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Education

  • Mann Receives a Letter From Congregationalist Frederick A. Packard

    (March)

  • Marcus Morton is Elected as the First Democratic Governor in Massachusetts

    (November)

  • Morton Proposes a Bill

    Marcus Morten proposed a bill that would have eliminated both the Board of Education and the normal schools.

  • New York Sees a Much Larger Inflow of Immigrant as Compared to Massachusetts

  • Privately Run Charity Schools No Longer Receive the Bulk of Public Funds in New York City

  • Free Catholic Schools Enroll Around 5,000 Students

  • Hughes Appeals to the Common Council for School Funds

  • Period: to

    Nearly Half of the Two Million Immigrants Arriving in the U.S. Were Irish

  • Mann and the Board Face a Similar Bill

  • William H. Seward Comes to the Defense of Catholics

  • Independence Day Address

  • The Board of Education Publishes "The School Library"

  • The Maclay Bill is Passed

  • The New Board of Education is Elected

  • The 1842 Election

  • The Board of Education Rules That Bible Reading Without Note or Comment Does Not Constitute Sectarianism

  • Mann is Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives

  • Another Month Added to the Academic Term

  • Mann Leaves His Post at the Massachusetts Board of Education to Serve in Congress

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