1944 Education Act
In summer 1941, Butler received his first cabinet-level post when he was appointed President of the Board of Education by Winston Churchill. He was also the chair of the War Cabinet Committee for the Control of Official Histories. The position was widely seen as a backwater in wartime, with Butler having been promoted to it to remove him from the more sensitive Foreign Office. Still, he proved to be one of the most radical reforming ministers on the home front, shaking up the education system in the Education Act 1944, which is often known as the Butler Education Act. At the end of World War II, Butler briefly served as Minister of Labour for two months in the "Caretaker" administration of Winston Churchill.
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