The larger system by far was the religiously dominated voluntary schools that provided an education for an increasingly wider community than clergy and their offspring.
Authorizes $20 million a year for fiscal years 2017 through 2021, totaling $100 million, for grants to carry out a voluntary school and child care lead testing program.
It created elected school boards, which had power to build and run schools where there were insufficient voluntary school places; they could also compel attendance.
