US Federal Education Legislation

Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)

Jan 1, 1965

Prior to this act, little federal involvement in education because education is constitutionally a "states right"

Higher Education Act of 1965

Jul 31, 1965

Legislation related to public universities and colleges

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

Jul 31, 1974

Gave students access to their education records, an opportunity to seek to have the records amended, and some control over the disclosure of information from the records.

Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA)

Jul 31, 1975

Equal Access Act

Jul 31, 1984

Compels federally-funded secondary schools to provide equal access to extracurricular clubs.

Goals 2000 Educate America Act

Jul 31, 1994

Funding for state development of standards and tests

No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)

Jul 31, 2001

Reauthorization of ESEA

Department of Education Blueprint for Reform

Dec 1, 2010

2010 ESEA Reauthorization: A Blueprint for Reform (report) (federal Department of Education) http://www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/blueprint/blueprint.pdf
• 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

2010 Illinois State Education Legislation

Dec 31, 2010

2010 Illinois Adoption of the Common Core Standards
2010 Illinois Performance Evaluation Reform Act and 2011 Senate Bill 7
2010 Illinois Public Act 96-0107 Illinois Longitudinal Data System Project