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The movement gained some legislative attention when a 1920 Michigan referendum for compulsory public education received 40% of the vote. [3] In 1922, Oregon passed a similar referendum. Eventually this law was challenged and unanimously struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in Pierce v. Society of Sisters. [4]
Compulsory education laws, despite being one of the last measures introduced by central governments seeking to regulate primary education, nevertheless were implemented an average of 52 years before democratization as measured by Polity and 36 years before universal male suffrage. [4]
The appeals court’s 2-1 decision, handed down on August 30, 1995, held that a previous ruling by the state supreme court permitted disparities in education if the state provided for a basic education. [12] Two months later, the coalition appealed to the Supreme Court of Ohio. [12]
A 1915 class at the Geyer School of Geyer, Ohio. By 1900, 34 states had compulsory schooling laws; four were in the South. Thirty states with compulsory schooling laws required attendance until age 14 (or higher). [111] As a result, by 1910, 72 percent of American children attended school. Half the nation's children attended one-room schools.
But school isn’t optional, thanks to the movement for compulsory education laws at the turn of the 20th century. Letting kids skip school is not only dismissal of those reformers’ work in the ...
LANSING, Mich. — State officials in Michigan announced changes this week to address administrative failures that have made it difficult for some of the state’s most vulnerable foster youths to ...
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday presented a $80.7 billion budget Wednesday that aims to boost education spending and deliver on her promise to provide students free education from ...
Wisconsin v. Jonas Yoder, 406 U.S. 205 (1972), is the case in which the United States Supreme Court found that Amish children could not be placed under compulsory education past 8th grade.