How was the education provided for new england colonies, middle colonies, and southern colonies

the answer to fill in the blank in this question would be the word resource, it is defined as the money, material or people (since human resource is a very valuable good) that a company or a person has at disposition (meaning they can use the resource as they see fit), to be able to complete a task or achieve a goal.  

if i am correct the answer is going to be a) the federal program of reconstruction ended.