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Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
Prior to this act, little federal involvement in education because education is constitutionally a "states right" -
Higher Education Act of 1965
Legislation related to public universities and colleges -
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
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)
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Equal Access Act
Compels federally-funded secondary schools to provide equal access to extracurricular clubs. -
Goals 2000 Educate America Act
Funding for state development of standards and tests -
No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)
Reauthorization of ESEA -
Department of Education Blueprint for Reform
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
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
