History and Evolution of Public Education in the US
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED606970.pdf
WebIn 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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