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The Public Schools Act of 1868 was legislation passed by the British Parliament.

It was based on the report of the Clarendon Commission , a Royal Commission on Public Schools which ran from 1861 to 1864, and investigated nine schools:

The Act removed the schools from the control of the government, granting them their independence and instating a board of governors for each, and led to the relaxation of the curriculum, from the previously-mandated, wholly ClassicsClassics particularly within the Western University tradition, when used as a singular noun, means the study of the language, literature, history, art, and other aspects of Greek and Roman culture during the time frame known as classical antiquity. As a p-based one, to a broader academic span.

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