Calendar of appeal cases, 1842.
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New York (State). Education Dept.
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New York State's education system has antecedents in both English and Dutch colonial education. The Dutch, concerned with providing widespread general education, established tax-supported common schools under church and state control in most of New Netherland's communities. Under the English, who established a system of private or church-supported academies, emphasis was placed on advanced education of the elite and the common school system of the Dutch all but disappeared. In 1754 ...
New York (State). Superintendent of Common Schools
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The judicial power to interpret school laws was vested in the Superintendent of Common Schools in 1822, transferred to the Superintendent of Public Instruction upon the creation of that office in 1854, and transferred to the Commissioner of Education upon creation of the State Education Department in 1904. Under the law any person can appeal the official actions of any local school official to the Commissioner, whose decision is a binding interpretation of the laws involved not reviewable in any...
