when was the american public school system established
History of education in the United States After the Revolution, northern states especially emphasized education and rapidly established public schools. By the year 1870, all states had tax-subsidized elementary schools.[49] The US population had one of the highest literacy rates in the world at the time.[50] Private academies also flourished in the towns across the country, but rural areas (where most people lived) had few schools before the 1880s.
Education in the United States There are more than 14,000 school districts in the country,[47] and more than $500 billion is spent each year on public primary and secondary education.[47] Most states require that their school districts within the state teach for 180 days a year.[48] In 2010, there were 3,823,142 teachers in public, charter, private, and Catholic elementary and secondary schools. They taught a total of 55,203,000 students, who attended one of 132,656 schools.[49]