... fill gaps. Public money should be spared. A national enquiry to the provision for schools should be conducted, if any deficiency of the inspected schools were proven giving the voluntary system a year's leeway. The findings by the government ministers, that there was a clear need for education. A new system was put into place, which introduced the establishment of school board's. This could provide a non- denominational elementary school; the ratepayers i.e. the voters, as well as grants from the government would finance this new system. This Act was to help to provide for the states elementary education.[2] Although 1870 Fosters Education Act did not effectively introduce compulsory education nor was education to be free. Although voluntary schools were not replaced by the school boards. This act did not affectively address the needs to educate all children, but did affectively address deficiencies in English education. By laws made education compulsory ...

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