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The School Act made elementary education compulsory and free up to age 12. The Act also created two streams of secondary education: high schools, the lower stream, and collegiate institutes, the higher stream. Extra funding was provided for collegiate institutes "with a daily average attendance of sixty boys studying Latin and Greek under a ...
Proclamation of the Constitution Act, 1867. v. t. e. Section 93 of the Constitution Act, 1867 ( French: article 93 de la Loi constitutionnelle de 1867) is a provision of the Constitution of Canada relating to education. It gives the provinces a broad legislative jurisdiction over education. Section 93 also contains guarantees of publicly funded ...
In 1957, Charles Phillips divided the history of public schooling in Canada into four periods or stages: The first was characterized by church-controlled education and lasted from the early 1700s through to the mid 1800s. Stage two, which extended to the late 1800s, saw the introduction of more centralized authority, universal free education ...
Tooltip Public Law (United States) 37–130. 1875. Civil Rights Act of 1875. Guaranteed equal treatment in public accommodations, including schools. Found unconstitutional in the Civil Rights Cases . 1890. Morrill Act of 1890. Amended the Morrill Act of 1862 to increase federal funding for land-grant universities.
The former Chief Justice of Canada Beverley McLachlin once referred to this as an early form of freedom of religion in Canada. Section 93 of the Constitution Act, 1867 awards jurisdiction over education to the provincial governments, with a few exceptions. Catholics have denominational school rights in Ontario.
On May 5, 1871, free school supporters proposed an amendment to the bill making schools under the Act be non-sectarian. The amendment was passed by a 25-10 vote. The bill, as a whole, was passed on May 17, 1871 and it was signed into law as the Common Schools Act of 1871. The Act came into effect on January 1, 1872.
Upper Canada's Grammar School Act of 1807 provided the first public funds for schools in what would become Ontario. 8 schools were opened. [12] 1804: St. Johns Common School in St. Johns was one of Ontario's first schools. 1816: The Act of 1816 authorized local trustees to decide on hiring criteria for teachers. [13]
The right to education has been recognized as a human right in a number of international conventions, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which recognizes a right to free, primary education for all, an obligation to develop secondary education accessible to all with the progressive introduction of free secondary education, as well as an obligation to ...