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1647- The beginning
One elementary school for fifty families, and one latin school for every 100 families. The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony wanted to make certain that every child knew how to read the bible. In a way, it is great that school is available for children! On the other hand, most of what they learned was religious. -
Religion in Schools Becomes Troublesome
The coming of many Catholic Irish immigrants caused a lot of change in New York schools. The Catholic parents refused to send their children to schools that would preach them about protestant lives. -
Grade Levels Weren't Always A Thing!
After traveling to other countries, (in the 19th century) Horace Mann brought an excellent idea back to the United States- separate children by age! It's good to say it was successful :) This impacted many students at that time, as well as those in the time to come. I am thankful that I didn't have to attend class with a 6 year old when I was 16. -
Stay in School Kids
a reform school opens in Massachusetts for children who want to skip school. This is just the beginning of many reform schools to come! -
Kill the Indian to Save the Man
Native Americans are no longer allowed to be taught in their native language. Boarding schools are created to forcefully erase the native language and culture from native american children. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
Segregation is legalized in all state affairs like transportation and business... as well as schools. Say 'hello' to "separate but equal"! This affected many children of color and other ethnicities. It is evident that non-white schools were run down, had little to no supplies and few educators. -
Brown VS. Board of Education
Although this did not completely end segregation, Congress agreed that segregation was not fair. Say 'goodbye' to "separate but equal' (kind of). Many schools, mostly in the northern states found loop holes to continue segregation. -
TITLE IX
This decision ruled that there would be no discrimination on the basis of sex in publicly funded organizations/schools. This also went as far as high school, college, vocational school's and programs. This defintely helped the movement to educate women and train them to compete in the workforce. -
Legally Separated
Miliken v. Bradley ruled that schools can continue to be segregated if the reason behind it was because the school districts were too far to desegregate, This meant that colored people who all lived in one area would continue to go to one school district. On the other hand, white people across town had their own school district, -
IDEA
Originally the: Education for All Handicapped Children Act, this ruling allowed children with disabilities to have equal education and services provided in schools receiving federal funding. It was later (1997) amended into IDEA. This gave many children the opportunity to be included in a public school. -
Plyer v Doe
Illegal immigrant children cannot be denied an education. This helped countless of children get educated in their new home. Before this, parents were given outrageous "tuition fees" that made it almost impossible to enroll their children in school. -
No Habla Español
Ron Unz ends bilingual education in California. This affected an incredible amount of students as many of the children from the west coast come from Hispanic descent. The plan was to cut off bilingual access as quick as possible, thus resulting in a halt to academic advances for some students. Things such as bilngual dictionaries were banned.
