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The effort to fund schools in every community with public dollars, this was the start of systematic public schooling in the US -
This established that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional, this was directly overruling Plessy vs. Ferguson's “separate but equal” ruling
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This distributed funding to schools with a high percentage of low-income students/families the goal was to raise the academic achievement of struggling students.
https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/programs/education/elementary-and-secondary-education-act-of-1965/ -
free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities and ensures special education and related services to those children.
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These were clear, measurable goals and learning standards for all students; this was the start of basic curriculum and assessments
https://web.stanford.edu/~hakuta/www/archives/syllabi/CalTex_SBR/historysbr.html -
States require students to be tested in reading and math (grades 3-12) and provide money for extra educational assistance for poor children in return for improvements in their academic progress.
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$4.35 billion United States Department of Education competitive grant created to spur and reward innovation and reforms in state and local districts -
Chicago Board of Education voted to close 50 schools, the largest mass closing in US history. Teachers worried that with would disproportionately affects the African American students
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resulted in a 5% pay raise for teachers. There was anger among teachers and school employees over low pay and high healthcare costs
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Students went from in person classes to going completely online in the start of the pandemic. Since, there have been class modifications, online tasks, masks/shields, and social distancing in place so that students can go back to in person.