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First grader Ruby Bridges is the first African American to attend William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans.
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Project Head Start, a preschool education program for children from low-income families, begins as an eight-week summer program. The program continues to this day as the longest-running anti-poverty program in the U.S.
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It abolishes the National Origins Formula and results in unprecedented numbers of Asians and Latin Americans immigrating to the United States, making America's classrooms much more diverse.
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African American children benefit from attending integrated schools sets the stage for school "busing" to achieve desegregation.
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A comprehensive approach to meeting the unique needs of American Indian and Alaska Native students
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t requires that a free, appropriate public education, suited to the student's individual needs, and offered in the least restrictive setting be provided for all "handicapped" children.
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Provides more than 90-billion dollars for education, nearly half of which goes to local school districts to prevent layoffs and for school modernization and repair. It includes the Race to the Top initiative, a 4.35-billion-dollar program designed to induce reform in K-12 education.
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As schools open this fall, a demographic milestone is reached: minority students enrolled in K-12 public school classrooms outnumber non-Hispanic Caucasians.
