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Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Congressional legislation at the federal level, ESEA provided federal funding to states primarily for education programs for disadvantaged students in order to support equity in education. Distributed using a formula based on the number of low-income students in a school. States were accountable for spending money only in terms of reporting on appropriate use. -
Report "Reclaiming our Nation at Risk"
Report concluding that our supposedly world-class system of education was not keeping pace with the progress of other nations, and this threatened both our children's opportunities and our collective future -
Improving America's Schools Act and Goals 2000 Educate America Act
Required state academic content standards and tests, and the Goals 2000: Educate America Act provided federal funds to aid states in writing those content standards. -
ESEA Reauthorization: "No Child Left Behind"
Built on the foundation laid in the original act by ensuring that states accepting the federal government’s targeted investment agree to measure and report on results in terms of standards and accountability. Helps create mor public discussion about public education. -
ESEA Fails to be Reauthorized
Continuing resolution passed instead, legislation continues "as is" until reauthorized, this continues today. Failure of reauthorization leads to further actions based on the authority of the Department of Education to make some types of adjustments in legislation without Congressional approval. -
Race to the Top Grant Competition
A small part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The Department of Education is given money to distribute as it desires via a grant program. Act emphasizes encouraging states to work jointly to create a common system of academic standards, increasing support available to teachers and administrators, improving instruction using longitudinal data, using resources to help failing schools, and reforming by establishing communication between business leaders and educators -
ESEA Reauthorization: A Blkueprint for Reform
This document contains the Department of Education/ Obama administration proposals for changing NCLB when it is reauthorized. The executive branch can propose legislation, but it is written and passed only by Congress, and Congress may be in total disagreement with the executive branch, -
New Illinois Education Legislation
Includes adoption of common core standards and assessments, new teacher performance evaluation systems, new teacher certification guidelines and requirements, new data systems of identification of lowest performing schools, and more charter schools and new authorization guidelines.