End of School Boards
The school boards were abolished by the Balfour Education Act 1902, which replaced them with around 300 Local Education Authorities, by which time there were 5700 board schools (2.6m pupils) and 14000 voluntary schools (3m pupils). The LEAs remit included secondary education for the first time.
Read more about this topic: Elementary Education Act 1870
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