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The Association for Children with Learning Disabilities is founded.
Parents and teaching professionals recognized a need to create services for children with special needs. They hadn’t existed yet, but during a conference in 1963, the subject was brought to the attention of both state and national leaders, where the foundation was created. This organization had a goal to acknowledge the needs of these children and create a more unique learning environment that understood the balances of how to educate their specific needs. -
Project Head Start begins an eight week summertime program.
The Head Start Program was designed as an eight-week summertime school curriculum, that was created to teach below poverty level children the necessary classroom fundamentals. Children were encouraged to improve their social skills and mentally prepare them for the rigors of a regular classroom. The project was part of the “War On Poverty” created by President Johnson after the assignation of President Kennedy. -
Title iX is created
Title IX is created to balance out federally funded learning institutions in regards to the sexes in sports. Whatever benefits one sex gets, the other also has available including scholarships.This balance of funding allowed for more women to participate in collegiate sports. -
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975
This act granted various government agencies to negotiate with American Indian tribes. This act allowed for the tribes’ own perseverance and control of their own governments. It also focused on the unique educational needs of the Native American students. -
The Refugee Act is passed
This act was created for refuges to be able to support themselves and generate their own income. The act was created to assist with the resettlement policies that the United States was implementing in 1980 which included training, English classes and healthcare for refuge’s, now living in the country. -
Mariel Boatlift
Fidel Castro allowed any person who wanted to leave the island, free access to the port of Mariel. Boats, ships, anything that someone could get to float, attempted to leave Cuba and enter the United States. Americans started going to Mariel, to pick up passengers for the trip back to the United States. Over 125,000 Cuban immigrants came over during the 6 months ending on October 31, 1980. President Carter signed the Refugee Assistance Act for the US Navy & Coast Guard to assist with the trip. -
Univeristy of Phoenix begins online campus education
A private for profit online education university, becomes the first to offer bachelor’s and master’s degrees. In 1994, the parent company took the university public and growth of it dramatically rose. Degree programs were offered in many tradition educational backgrounds including Business, Education, Nursing and Criminal Justice. -
Prop 187 passes in California
Public health agencies, educators and police were to authenticate immigration citizenship of all people including children. The provision would have halted education to children, healthcare to families and it would have made the police force immigration agents. All of these ideals were an attempt to clear out multicultural families from the state and in 1999 it was struck down because the law overstepped a state’s liability and remanded the function to the federal government. -
No Child Left Behind Act begins
In 2002, the No Child Left Behind Act orders all states to change their process of testing of students. This law held schools liable for low student test scores. If public schools didn’t make achieve high scores, then they were granted less money or other fines might be levied on them. It was later discovered, that many schools cheated the system set up, by giving students the answers to achieve their maximum score goals. -
U.S. School Enrollment Hits Majority-Minority Milestone
In the fall of 2014, a shift of demographics has occurred with the majority of school children. Non-white students are now the majority attending classes in the United States. There is an obvious shift now in the classroom, and school districts are now having to deal with a not so new issue of highly segregated populations again.
https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/08/20/01demographics.h34.html
