Historical Timeline - 2000 - 2022+

By riverar1

  • The No Child Left Behind Act (2001)

    Introduced by George W. Bush, the purpose was to make sure that students were making progress, thus making it required for states to submit proficiency scores that were compared to base standards.

  • The Twin Towers

    Terrorist attack in the United States

  • Higher Education Act

    Amended and reauthorized

  • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) (2004)

    Reauthorized, helped with educational support to students with disabilities and RTI (response to intervention) strategies.

  • The Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006

    Reauthorized a principal source of federal funding to states and discretionary grantees for the improvement of secondary and postsecondary career and technical education programs across the nation.

  • Labor-HHS-Education Appropriation Bill

    Included reauthorization of NCLB Act, however, vetoed by President Bush because it exceeded budget.

  • Virginia Tech Massacre

  • Community Schools . Seattle School District No. 1

    Race cannot be a factor in assigning students to high schools

  • Northern Illinois University Shooting

  • Barack Obama elected as President

  • Higher Education Opportunity Act

    Reauthorization of the act and includes major changes in financial aid.

  • American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (2009)

    Provides a substantial amount of budget to American Schools, and the Race to the Top initiative was introduced.

  • Great Recession

  • Immigration Status

    Alabama becomes the first state to require public schools to check the immigration status of students. Unconstitutional based on Plyler v. Doe ruling.

  • Sandy Hook Elementary School Massacre

  • Chicago In Distress

    50 schools closed and a large number of employees were laid off.

  • Multiple School Shootings

  • Bipartisan Budget Bill

    Restores some of the cuts to federal eduction programs

  • Every Student Succeeds Act (2015)

    Allows more state control in judging school quality.

  • Transgender Students

    Can choose the bathroom with which they identify

  • D. J. Trump elected as President

  • Transgender Students

    No longer able to choose the bathroom of the gender with which they identify.

  • Parkland School Shooting

  • Changes in Gun laws

    Thousands of students walk out asking for better gun laws.

  • COVID - 19 Pandemic

  • Joe Biden Elected President

  • Critical Race Theory banned in many schools

  • Uvalde's school shooting

  • Preparing students for future jobs

    Based on technological advancements.