Answer:
Puritan towns that did not set up required schools had to pay a fine
Step-by-step explanation:
The colony of Massachusetts passed an education law in 1642, that made education compulsory for children. This is because the Puritan immigrants who settled Boston believed that the ability to read and write were integral to understand the bible and live by God's word.
In this regard, they believed that basic education will transform the lives of their children not only for this life but also the hereafter.
After a couple of years of the bill passing however, not much progress was made and a more forceful bill was later passed that made it mandatory for any town with more than fifty families to build public schools.
Many towns, did not follow this and instead paid a fine, as building and maintaining a school was expensive.