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Feb. 7, 2000 - Senate Bill SB 1441 (Vocational Education)
This bill would prohibit the State Board of Education or the governing board of a school district from requiring a pupil to participate in a school-to-work, vocational education, work experience, or job training program or to meet, for grade level promotion or high school graduation, unless the pupil is voluntarily enrolled. -
Jan. 8, 2002 - No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
NCLB Act is approved by Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush. NCLB holds schools accountable for student achievement levels, and provides penalties for schools that do not make adequate yearly progress toward meeting the goals. -
Feb. 21, 2003 - AB 1336: Special Education Funding
This bill would revise the formula for purposes of calculating the inflation adjustment and the growth adjustment for the 2003–04 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute. -
Feb. 22, 2005 - AB1260: Pupils in Out-of-Home Placement
This bill would provide that this provision does not prohibit a licensed children’s institution from defining the target population of children that its residential program is designed to serve.
It would require that the nonpublic, nonsectarian school certify that pupils have access to those materials to the extent that they are accessible at the local educational agency in which the nonpublic, nonsectarian school is located. -
Jul. 1, 2005 - The Individuals with Disabilities Improvement Act (2004)
It includes modifications in the IEP process and procedural safeguards, increased authority for school personnel in special education placement decisions, and alignment of IDEA with the No Child Left Behind Act. -
Aug. 14, 2008 - Higher Education Opportunity Act
The Higher Education Opportunity Act is a federal legislation designed to strengthen the educational resources of colleges and universities and to provide financial assistance for students in secondary education. It reauthorizes the Higher Education Act of 1965. -
Jun. 1, 2009 - Common Core States Standards Initiative
CCSS is an educational initiative that details what K–12 students throughout the United States should know in English language arts and mathematics at the conclusion of each school grade.
The initiative is sponsored by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers. -
Jul. 25, 2009 - Race to the Top (American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009)
It is a competitive education grant that requires great teachers and leaders, state success factors, standards and assessments, general selection criteria, turning around the lowest-achieving schools, and a data system to support education. -
Sep. 2, 2010 - Kindergarden Readiness Act of 2010
For years, California kindergarteners had to turn 5 before December 2nd in order to register for kindergarten. The Kindergarten Readiness Act, changed the entry date to September 1 so all children would enter kindergarten at age 5. -
Jul. 1, 2015 - Senate Bill 876
This bill would require a school district or charter school to ensure that credentialed teachers who are first assigned to a transitional kindergarten class after July 1, 2015, have, by August 1, 2020, have a minimum number of units in early childhood education or development, or a child development teacher permit issued by the CTC.as a condition of receipt of apportionment for pupils in a transitional kindergarten program. -
Dec. 10, 2015 - Every Student Succeeds Act
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was signed by President Obama on December 10, 2015. This bipartisan measure reauthorizes the 50-year-old Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the nation’s national education law and longstanding commitment to equal opportunity for all students. -
Nov. 8, 2016 - California Multilingual Education Act
Proposition 58, gives public school systems the right to choose the way they see as appropriate for their students to learn English more swiftly. Students will now have the option to be taught in an English-only environment, or a bilingual environment, where a person of the student's native language teaches them English. This also allows English speaking students to learn in another language. -
Jan. 25, 2018 - SB 933: Visual and Performing Arts
This bill would establish the Arts for Every Student Incentive Grant Program, to be administered by the State Department of Education, to deliver high-quality visual and performing arts education programs, provide a jump start for underserved local educational agencies that lack the capacity to provide access to a visual and performing arts education to every pupil, and provide opportunities for pupils with exceptional needs to participate in arts education programs and curricula. -
Feb. 16, 2018 - AB 3136: Special Education Funding
This bill would increase that percentile to the 95th percentile and would require the Superintendent to compute that equalization adjustment commencing with the first fiscal year after funds are apportioned pursuant to a specified formula and for each fiscal year thereafter in which an equalization appropriation is made, as specified. The bill would require the Superintendent to make certain computations following each year in which an equalization appropriation is made. -
April 11, 2019 - S. 1172: Keep Our Promise to America's Children and Teachers Act.
This bill provides funding for disadvantaged students under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) and students with disabilities under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
The bill provides funding for grant programs under the ESEA operated by local educational agencies dealing with the disadvantaged. It also reauthorizes the IDEA to assist states and outlying areas in providing special education and related services to children with disabilities. -
Jul. 30, 2019 - Funding Early Childhood is the Right IDEA Act
This bill reauthorizes funding for specified provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act for early childhood education. Specifically, the bill reauthorizes grants to states for preschool programs serving children with disabilities ages three to five. It also reauthorizes grants to aid states in implementing early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families. -
Feb. 13, 2020 - H.R. 4979: Rural STEM Education Act
This bill directs the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support research regarding STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, including computer science) education in rural schools.
The NSF must award grants to institutions of higher education or nonprofit organizations for research and development to advance innovative approaches to support and sustain high-quality STEM teaching in rural schools. -
Sep. 30, 2020 - H.R. 8460: Protecting Our students in School Act of 2020
This bill prohibits the use of corporal punishment in schools that receive federal funding. It also establishes enforcement provisions, including a private right of action for a student who has been subjected to corporal punishment, and creates a grant program for state educational agencies to implement positive behavioral interventions and supports to address student behavior and reduce exclusionary and aversive discipline practices. -
Dec. 7, 2020 - AB 10
This bill would specify that the requirement to provide in-person instruction applies when instruction is allowed under state and county local public health orders. The bill would also include, in addition to pupils, certificated employees who are medically fragile or would be put at risk by in-person instruction or who are self-quarantining within the scope of this provision. -
Dec. 7, 2020 - AB 27: Homeless children and youths and unaccompanied youths
This bill would require a local educational agency to ensure that each school within the local educational agency identifies all homeless children and youths and unaccompanied youths, as defined, enrolled at the school, administer a housing questionnaire, as specified, for purposes of identifying homeless children and youths and unaccompanied youths.. -
Conclusion
The role of schools has evolved over time thanks to all the different educational policy reforms and practices that have occurred since 2000. Instead of just focusing on academic improvement, schools are covering other areas such as ensuring mental and physical well-being of all students including special education, low income, and financially disadvantaged students.
