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The political trade-off for reduced salaries was increased teacher control of schools. Tenure and certification laws were enacted along with salary cuts, making teachers more secure in their jobs. Enrollment in associations such as the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA) increased. School surveys were repeatedly undertaken in the hopes of making school more financially and pedagogically effective. The pressure of the Depression resulted in the consolidation of many school districts and school facilities, centralizing and rationalizing control of education — goals education reformers had long sought. Businesses that supplied local school districts with textbooks, furniture, and physical plants standardized their products and homogenized the educational market.
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