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The first compulsory education law in the American colonies was established in Massachusetts in 1852. In 1647, the Massachusetts General Court passed a law requiring every town to create and operate a grammar school. Fines were imposed on parents who did not send their children to school and the government took the power to take children away from their parents and apprentice them to others if government officials decided that the parents were "unfit to have the children educated properly".
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Public education was not widely available.
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What statement best describes the public educational system that existed in the US before educational reform began in the 1830s?
Public education was not widely availablePublic education was not widely available.
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