Education in my lifetime

By Tinkerbell21

  • Teach for America formed

  • The immigration and Nationality Act of 1990

  • Smart board is introduced

  • The first charter school open

  • Massachusetts Education Reform Act

  • The Improving America's Schools Act (IASA)

  • Georgia becomes the first state to offer universal preschool

  • The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996

  • New York passes legislation that will phase in voluntary pre-kindergarten classes

  • Higher Education Amendments of 1998

  • Columbine shooting

  • Santa Fe School District v. Doe

  • September 11

  • No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)

  • The international Associtation for K-12 online learning

  • The Individuals with Disabilities Improvement Act

  • Chage to The Individuals with Disabilities Improverment Act take effect

  • Parents Involved in community schools v. Seattle school district No.1 oral argument

  • Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education oral argument

  • American Association on Mental Retardation become the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD)

  • Virginia Tech Massacre

  • Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 opinion announcement

  • Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education opinion announcement

  • Northern Illinois University shooting

  • Common Core State Standards Initiative

  • American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009

  • Great Recession

  • New Texas social studies curriculum standards

  • Alabama become the first state "to require public schools to check the immigration status" of students

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    Waivers to No Child Left Behind Law

  • Sandy Hook Elementary school Shooting

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    School Cut

    5/22-The Chicago Board of Education votes to close 50 schools
    6/7-The School District of Philadelphia announces that there will be cut nearly 4000 employees
    6/14-The chicago Public Schools announce that they will be laying off 663 employees

  • Program for international Student Assessment

  • Indiana withdrawing the state from the Core Standards

    Indiana becomes the first state to do so. The Common Core may still be included in Indiana's "new" standards

  • Minnesota adopt the policy allowing transgender students to join female sports teams

  • "too-much-testing" movement

  • Two years of free commuity college for all American students

  • U.S. Senate votes 85-12 to approve the Every Student Succeeds Act

  • School districts "to allow transgender students to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity"

  • President Donald Trump rescinds the Obama administration's controversial transgender bathroom directive.