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## [School Boards: Working from Within to Champion Change](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/2013/04/29/school-boards-working-from-within-to-champion-change/)

 Posted by [lindsaydworman](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/author/lindsaydworman) on Apr 29, 2013, 11:48:25 AM

**By Lindsay Dworman, BoardSource strategic development and partnerships associate manager**

Since the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony decreed in 1647 that every town of 50 families should have an elementary school and that every town of 100 families should have a Latin school, the public...

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