The Massachusetts Board of Education’s full-time paid secretary Horace

The Massachusetts Board of Education’s full-time paid secretary Horace Mann spent his state government career advocating for all of the following EXCEPT

A) tighter state standards for education in the public schools.
B) more money for schools and teacher salaries from increased taxes.
C) state systems of education and better-educated teachers.
D) private college-sponsored teacher preparation schools called “normal schools” that offered privately funded preparation to any young woman or man who wanted to be a teacher.

ANSWER
Answer: D