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  1. In 1845, a new school law set aside as a permanent school fund $2 million of the $10 million in five-percent U.S. Indemnity bonds received in settlement of Texas' boundary claims against the United States. After the Civil War and Reconstruction, the new state constitution of 1876 set aside 45 million acres of public domain for school support ...

  2. A study is required of curriculum for all Texas public schools. 1981 – U.S. vs. Texas Teacher salaries are increased. The base salary is increased to $9,400 in 1977-78 and $9,490 in 1978-79. Steps 11-12-13 are added. U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas rules in U.S. vs. Texas Motion to Enforce:

  3. 1893 The El Paso Board of Education was the first to open a public kindergarten. 1890s Laws granted cities and municipalities more administrative freedom. By 1900, 526 inde-pendent school districts existed in Texas. 1903 The Texas Legislature created a textbook selection board to increase uniformity across

  4. Laws proved to be his most lasting legacy. The Fifty-firstTexas Legislature passed three laws in 1949 completely reorganizing the State'spublic education system, refonn package that became one ofthe most significant turning points in Texas educational history. The new laws transformed the entire Texas pub­ lic education system from the top, down.

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    • 2009
  5. Public education was one of the primary goals of the early settlers of Texas. As early as 1838, President Mirabeau B. Lamar’s message to the Republic of Texas Congress advocated setting aside public domain for public schools. His interest caused him to be called the “Father of Education in Texas.”.

  6. 5The school law of 1876 created a decentralized system that limited taxes and central control over educational matters for eighty-three years. In 1949 the state reorganized education under the Gilmer-Aiken Laws, creating a state board of education and Texas Education Agency and restructuring the funding bases for public schools.

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    May 28, 2021 · Education. Education in Spanish Texas was designed to Christianize and domesticate the Indians and to provide the rudiments of learning for the children of garrison troops and Spanish colonists. Mission schools were established for the Indians, the first being at San Francisco de los Tejas Mission in East Texas in 1690.

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