HST296e: Rural Life in the U.S., Prof. Dona Brown

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The history laws defining public education in Vermont begins in 1782 with the division into school districts, 1797 with the provision of State supervisors, 1827 with the appointment of town committees and a State board, and 1845 with the creation of county and State superintendants of common schools. (Bush, George Gary History of Education in Vermont. United States Bureau of Education Circular of Information No. 4, 1900) The history of the "natural union" of education and agriculture is not as well-defined.