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Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Purpose: provide supplementary funding for education for disadvantaged students. Federal involvement was questioned because education is a state right. -
Reclaiming our Nation at Risk
The commission recommended schools, colleges, and universities adopt more rigorous and measurable standards, and higher expectations for academic performances...and that four-year colleges and universities raise their requirements for admission. -
Improving America's School and Goals 2000 Educate America
Goal: To have a standards-based education system; clearer, grade-level specific, and more academically challenging. -
ESEA Reauthorization: No Child Left Behind
Test annually for math and reading contents (and science at a certain point). The scores were then made public to tax payers, parents, educators, and policy makers to evaluate that the money was being used correctly. -
ESEA Fails to be Reauthorized
Continuing resolution passed, and legislation continues "as is" until reauthorized. Department of Education makes some adjustments in legislation without Congressional approval. -
Race to the Top Grant Competition
The Department of Education is given money to distribute as it desires by means of a grant program.
--States must promote innovation, reform, and excellence in America's Public Schools in order to recieve grant money. States must build common core standards, expand effective support to teachers and teacher preparation, use data to drive instruction, prioritize and transform low-performing schools, and promote collaborative work among leaders and educators. -
Illinois Adoption of the Common Core Standards
Purpose: incorporates new standards developed by a large coalition of states for math and English language arts into the existing standards system. -
Illinois Performance Evaluation Reform Act and 2011 Senate Bill 7
Purpose: requires and establishes guidelines for performance evaluation of all Illinois public school teachers and administrators. -
Illinois Public Act 96-0107 Illinois Longitudinal Data System Project
Purpose: enables research and program assessment based on educational outcomes by linking program data, teacher evaluation data, and student acheivement. -
Illinois Public Act 97-0607 (SB1799) Educator Certification and Liensure
Requires reconfiguration and strengthening of Illinois educator licensure system including new standards and assessments for pre-service teachers. -
NCLB Waivers/Flexibility
Purpose: allows for more charter schools in Illinois. Created the State Charter School Commission, an independent state agency with statewide chartering jurisdiction and authority (makes it possible to establsih a charter school no under the jurisdiction of the local school district).