Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/September

September

7th

• 1992 – The first Charter School in the United States, City Academy High School, opens in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

10th

• 2002 – Business Academy Bexley in the London Borough of Bexley, England, is the first British school to open under the Academy programme, independently run secondary schools that receive public funding.

21st

• 1949 – Britain's first comprehensive school, Holyhead County School (now renamed Holyhead High School), opens in Wales.

23rd

• 1957 – President Dwight Eisenhower orders a battle group of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division to escort nine students into Little Rock Central High School. This enforcement of Brown v. Board of Education is considered to be one of the most important events in the Civil Rights Movement.