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Changing Attitudes Toward Free Public Schools in Illinois 1825-1860

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

John Pulliam
John Pulliam*
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The University of Texas
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Education in Illinois followed the pattern of other states in the Northwest Territory from 1818 when statehood was granted. There was the usual school fund from the Ordinances of 1785 and 1787. Nathaniel Pope, the Illinois territorial delegate, managed to reserve three fifths of the revenues from the sale of public lands for school use. Nevertheless public support for education was almost nil in Illinois during the first struggling years of statehood and a very inadequate effort was made by private venture and charity schools. Yet in 1825 Illinois passed a bill that briefly put the State far in advance of others in the formation of a system of public schools.

Type
State and Local History of Education I
Information
History of Education Quarterly , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , Summer 1967 , pp. 191 - 208
Copyright
Copyright © 1967 by New York University 

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