Boston School Committee is established.

General Court directs all towns “to trust to appoint School Committees for the control of the schools.” Its purpose is “to exercise all the Powers relating to the Schools and School Masters, which the Selectmen or such Committees are authorized by the Laws of this Commonwealth on the Votes of this Town to exercise.” The first official Boston School Committee is made up of one representative from each of the 12 wards along with the nine Selectmen. The committee is reorganized in 1822.*