She wanted free public education for all children over two years of age in state-supported boarding schools.
The College became a state-supported school in 1906 and went coed in 1918.
It hosts the first state-supported school for the deaf.
This was expanded to a separate state-supported school in 1919.
Precise figures for the subsidies - from state-supported religious schools to tax breaks for large families - are hard to come by.
In this same period, however, offerings of a similar nature slowly became available from the local state-supported schools.
During the slide, public support for the state-supported school eroded.
He also introduced a bill to establish a state-supported school in Marquette.
Universal, state-supported school is a modern invention dating from the nineteenth century.
About 34 of the 60 students, ranging in age from 2 to 19, spend three to five nights a week at the state-supported school.