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Coral Way Elementary is started in Miami, FL in response to Cuban immigration. It is the first bilingual school in the U.S.
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The Civil Rights Act is signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson. It ended public segregation and discrimination in employment.
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McCarver Elementary school becomes the first "magnet school"- schools offering special programs to bring in more diversity.
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The Indian Education Act is established to meet the needs of Native American students; their academic needs related to language and culture.
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The Supreme Court ruled that the school district had to provide education to Chinese students who spoke little- no English. This lead to the Equal Educational Opportunities Act being passed which required schools to overcome barriers to equal education (such as language barriers).
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Supreme Court ruled that books can't be removed from a school library because the school finds them offensive.
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TFA is founded to recruit college grads to serve as teachers in low income neighborhoods.
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Multicultural Education: Transformative Knowledge and Action by James Banks is published. The book discusses multicultural education, making it more widely discussed.
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Q2L, which is the first school to use game-based learning, opens in NYC. It is now has grades 6-12.
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As a former DPS student, I decided it would be relevant to include this as my last and most recent event. On January 11th, 2016, Detroit teachers had a "sick out" strike in protest of the bad conditions of schools (overcrowding. Ex: I continually had 40+ students in any of my classes growing up) and the districts' debt. This caused over 90 schools to close during the strike.
