Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974
Congress passed the EEOA as a house bill amending the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The only legislative history available for reference is from a similar bill passed in 1972. The House Committee on Education and Labor noted that the bill was significant in that it contained the first "illustrative definition of a denial of equal educational opportunity", and that this lent clarity to schools, governmental authorities, and students as to what, precisely, their rights were.
City of Bath Technical School
1900 saw the School leaving age raised to 12 years. The Education Act 1902 laid down the system of secondary education, abolished school boards, and replaced them with the local education authorities of county and county boroughs councils. In the following year,1903; the Bath Education Committee was formed and took over from the Bath and Twerton school boards. 1906 was the introduction of the Education (Provision of Meals) Act 1906. Education committees were authorised to spend money on meals for children. A Report on technical education (the Haldane Report) was prepared. In 1907 the Education (Administrative Provisions) Act 1907 was passed. Local education authorities to provide medical inspection of children in elementary schools.