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General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony Law
The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony passes a law that towns with 50 families have to have an elementary school. The law also includes also that towns with 100 families need to have a Latin school. It also required children, apprentices, servants, and dependents need to read English. They also need to read the Bible. -
Boston English Classical School
The first-ever public high school is in Boston, Massachusetts. It opened in 1821 with 101 male students enrolled. This lead to the cause of slowly opening more high schools in the U.S. It's a positive thing that more high schools are opening because students can expand their education. -
Massachusetts Passes Two School Laws
In Massachusetts, a law is passed forcing public schools to have all grades be free of charge. Later on, Massachusetts passes another law forcing towns of 500 families or more to have open public high schools for all children. More students can now attend schools without the worried of being charge. This also expands on opening more high schools and helping students better their education. -
Laws Forbidding Slaves To Read
There are laws that connect slaves and education but there are certain laws that impact slaves in a negative way. For example, a lot of southern states have laws that do not allow slaves to read. However, there is also a law that forbids people to teach slaves how to read. This is a negative impact on slaves because it causes them to even be close to or becoming illiterate. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
Homer Plessy is an African American who refused to leave his seat in a railroad car that was devoted to whites and was arrested. Plessy filed a petition against judge Ferguson for violating the 14th Amendment. The Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment only works on civil rights and politics, therefore, wasn't violated. Which created the doctrine of "separate but equal". People of color were negatively impacted because it created segregated facilities. -
Brown V. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
Oliver Brown filed a suit towards the Board of Education of Topeka because Black schools are not equal to White schools and violates the 14th Amendment. After 3 years, the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public school is unconstitutional and there is no need for the doctrine of "separate but equal". There wasn't an official integration but cause future civil rights movements."Little Rock Nine" are nine black students that were among first to attend a all-white school. -
Serrano V. Priest
Is the first of three cases of the Serrano V. Priest. Los Angeles public school students/families proclaim that California's school finance system is a disadvantage to students that got to districts with lower incomes. California's court determined that the state's financial system is not constitutional. This impacts the school districts in California by changing the finance in public schools and changing local to state control. This gives students the same financial systems in school. -
Title IX
Throughout the years, there has been a unbalance and inequality between genders in schools, especially in sports. President Richard Nixon signed a lawed called Title IX which changed inequality between all genders. Title IX forces all schools to have equal and fair treatment of all sexes in all areas of the school, especially sports. Women were the most impacted because there were fewer women dropping out of school, more are playing sports, and seeking higher education. -
Education of all Handicapped Children Act
There are different reasons why EAHCA was created but one story is Allan's story. Since Allan was a baby, he wasn't receiving the proper attention for his mental disability, until the late 1970s. EAHCA forces public schools to have educational services for disabled children between the ages of 3 to 21. This gives children with disabilities a promising future and giving them the proper basis needs for education. -
Plyler V. Doe
The Tyler Independent School District accepted a policy that required immigrate students to pay tuition to attend public schools. MALDEF filed a lawsuit against Tyler ISD on behave of four families because the school is violating the 14th Amendment. The Supreme Court gave all children the right to a free public education no matter what immigration status. Immigrate families were impacted in a positive way because their childrens were allow to go to public schools without paying. -
Board of Education of Independent School District #92 of Pottawatomie County v. Earls
The school district in Tecumseh, Oklahoma forces all middle and high school students to take frequent drug tests to participate in any school extra activities. Two families stated that drug testing the students frequently violated the 4th Amendment. The Court determined that the school district did not violate the 4th Amendment as it helps the school prevent students from drug use. This impacts the students by preventing them from using drugs but gives them less privacy. -
Grutter V. Bollinger
Barbara Grutter's admission application to the University of Michigan Law School was denied because the university is admitting to having more diversity in students. She declared that her Equal Protection Right was violated. The Supreme Court did not agree with Barbara and declared that the university has the right to do that to promote diversity. This helps schools become more diverse but it is not fair to students who deserve to be in those schools because of academic achievements.