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- Local school boards have been an integral feature of the U.S. public education system for nearly 100 years, and they are widely regarded as the principal democratic body capable of representing citizens in local education decisions.
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In the 1830s, Horace Mann, a Massachusetts legislator and secretary of that state’s board of education, began to advocate for the creation of public schools that would be universally available to all children, free of charge, and funded by the state.
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Jan 11, 2023 · School board members, who are usually unpaid volunteers, play a major role in public schools. By Andrew Bauld. |. Jan. 11, 2023, at 9:15 a.m. Getty Images. At a time when school board...
Since the turn of the century, there have been many changes in the way public schools operate, but the basic governance structure has stayed much the same: a local, nonpartisan school board, elected by the citizens of the community that support the schools.
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Aug 29, 2017 · It wasn’t until the mid-1960s that the federal government took a more robust role in K–12 education. The impetus for the change was twofold. The Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which mandated the desegregation of public schools, gave the executive branch a legal precedent for enforcing equal access to education ...
Mar 17, 2017 · A brief history and review of the country's educational system is provided in this chapter, with a focus on five periods: Colonial America and the Revolution, the Age of the Common School, the Progressive Era, the Postwar Period, and the Emerging Twenty-First Century.
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May 16, 2018 · Board of Education, ruling that racial segregation in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. The upshot: Students of color in America would no longer be...
The formal institutional roles assigned to school boards, and the designated position board members play as representatives of the community, would lead one to believe that the school board has a decisive role in public education policy and school system administration.
