2013 Event Russia enacts a law that bans smoking in schools and on subways 2012 Event The Chicago Public Schools reaches a deal with the Chicago Teachers Union to end an 8-day strike 2012 Event After weeks of protests, the Hong Kong government backs down on its plans to introduce Chinese patriotism classes in its schools 2012 Event A study finds that 90% of dropouts in Asia's major city schools suffer from myopia, or short-sightedness, with 10 - 20% having advanced, or high myopia, which can cause blindness 2011 Event By order of an Egyptian court, the name of Egypt's former President, Hosni Mubarak, is stripped from public spaces, schools and streets 2010 Event The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, says cultural genocide is happening as a result of the Chinese law requiring Mandarin as the language of instruction in Tibetan schools 2010 Event At least 80 schoolgirls attending different Kunduz schools are poisoned this week; an inquiry is launched and the Taliban, opposed to female education, deny any involvement 1991 Event Eddie Sutton is 1st NCAA coach to lead 4 schools into playoffs 1987 Event Heavy snow closes schools from Washington D.C. to Maine 1985 Event Yonkers is found guilty of segregating schools and housing 1984 Event Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools 1983 Event Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated against students 1980 Event University administraion declares 5 Pac-10 schools ineligible for conference titles and post-season play due to transcript and curriculum abuses 1979 Event "Rock 'n Roll High Schools" premieres 1975 Event Boston begins court ordered busing of public schools 1968 Event Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools unconstitutional 1966 Death Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools, dies at 82 1964 Event Supreme Court rules closing schools to avoid desegregation unconstitut 1964 Event 86% of black students boycott Cleveland schools 1964 Event Black and Puerto Rican students boycott New York City public schools 1963 Event 225,000 students boycot Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest 1963 Event 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama 1963 Event Alabama Governor George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools 1963 Event Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools 1962 Event Justice Department files 1st suit to end segregation in public schools 1962 Event Suit to bar Englewood New Jersey from "racial segregated" schools, filed 1962 Event "Twist" is impure and bans it from all Catholic schools 1957 Event Eisenhower orders U.S. troops to desegregate Little Rock schools 1956 Event Louisville Kentucky public schools integrates 1954 Event School integration begins in Washington D.C. and Baltimore Md public schools 1954 Event Integration begins in Washington D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland public schools 1953 Event Schools 1st use Cliff's Notes 1948 Event Supreme Court rules relg instructions in pub schools unconstitutional 1945 Event 1000 whites walk out of Gary, Indiana schools to protest integration 1940 Event Nazi occupiers forbid building schools in Netherlands 1936 Birthday Roy Beggs, born in Ballyclare, Northern Ireland, John Robert Beggs, Ulster Unionist Party, Member of Parliament for East Antrim 1983 - 2005, known for his Euroscepticism, strong support of Northern Ireland's grammar schools 1934 Birthday Alan Ridout, born in West Wickham, England, composer, teacher, professor Royal College of Music, worked with Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra, prolific instrumental and choral music composer 1933 Birthday Edward de Bono, physician, inventor, consultant, author, invented term lateral thinking, promoted deliberate teaching of thinking as a subject in public schools, advanced applied psychology, making theories about creativity, perception into usable tools 1930 Event New York City public schools begin teaching Hebrew 1926 Event Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools 1917 Birthday Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, born in British India, brought Transcendental Meditation to Indian schools, universities 1913 Event Hebrew language officially used to teach in Palestinian schools 1910 Event 1st junior high schools in U.S. opens (Berkeley California) 1892 Event Pledge of Allegiance 1st recited in public schools 1884 Birthday Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools 1811 Death Robert Raikes, founder of Sunday Schools, dies 1796 Birthday Horace Mann, U.S., educator/author/editor, pioneered public schools
