Timeline of Education Policy

By chong23

  • Elementary and Secondary Education

    ESEA provided federal funding to states primarily for education programs for disadvantaged students in order to provide for inequity and education programs.
    The involvement of the federal government was questioned because the constitutionally education is a state's right.

  • Report "Reclaiming Our Nation At Risk"

    Our lacking education programs threatened our country's future economic opportunities.
    Schools, colleges, and universities adopt more rigorous and measurable standards and higher expectations for academic perfromance... And that four year colleges and universities raise their requirements for admission.

  • Improving America's Schools Act and Goals 2000 Educate America Act

    "Required state academic content standard and tests" (5).
    "Provided federal funds to aid states in writing those content standards' (5).

  • ESEA Reauthorizan: No Child Left Behind

    In which states agreed to measure and report on results in terms of standards and accountability.
    The purpose/ goal of the legislation is the same; most funds are in Title 1 for education support for disadvantaged students.
    About 10% of public education costs are now funded by the federal government, primarily via NCLB.

  • ESEA Fails to be Reauthorized

    Continuing resolution passed instead, legislation continues "as is" until reasuthorized, this continues until present time.
    Failure of reauthorization leads to the actions below, based on the authority of the Department of Education (executive branch of federal government) to make some types of adjustments in legislation without Congressional approval

  • ESEA Reauthorization: A Blueprint 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

    (1) Adoption of common core standards and assessments, (2) new teacher performance evaluation system (3) new teacher certification guidelines and requirements, (4) new data systems of identification of lowest performing schools, and (5) more charter schools and new authorization guidelines

  • Race to the Top Grant Competition

    A small part of ARRA, the Department of Education is given money to distribute as it desires via a grant program. So far four phases: 09, 10, 11