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Timeline of American Primary Education


 * 1647: every town in the Massachusetts Bay Colony over 50 families must have an elementary school and towns over 100 families must have a Latin school
 * 1779: Thomas Jefferson proposes a two-track education system for those who work in labor and those who don't
 * 1785: townships are created by land grants from the Continental Congress to be used for a local school
 * 1790: poor children in Pennsylvania are given free public education; rich children still have to pay
 * 1805: wealthy men create the New York Public School Society for poor children to teach them how to be good factory workers
 * 1827: all public schools become open to all children regardless of family income in Massachusetts
 * 1837: Horace Mann becomes the head of the Massachusetts State Board of Education
 * 1848: reform schools are started when the Massachusetts Reform School at Westboro opened; combines education and juvenile justice
 * 1848: the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo guarantees that Spanish can be used in American public schools
 * 1851: Massachusetts passes a compulsory education law; used to make good workers out of immigrants
 * 1864: it becomes illegal for Native Americans to be taught their native languages in schools; off-reservation boarding schools take children to americanize them early in their lives
 * 1865-1877: public education comes to the South for the first time; newly freed African Americans partnered with Republicans to guarantee free public education
 * 1893-1913: local school boards are cut in half; city-wide elections of district officials begin; immigrant communities lose control of their schools
 * 1896: Plessy v. Ferguson rules "separate but equal" is constitutional
 * 1905: California is ruled by the Supreme Court to give Chinese children public education
 * 1954: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka abolishes segregation
 * 1994: California's Proposition 187 passes; undocumented children cannot attend public schools
 * 1998: California outlaws bilingual education