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The first bilingual and bicultural public school in the United States.
In 1963, thousands of cuban children refugees and there families came to southern Florida after the Castro's cuban revolution. In order to accommodate theses children Coral Way Elementary School in Dade Country Florida became the first public bicultural education school. This change was historical because it allowed both English and Spanish speakers into the United States. This later became the federal bilingual education law of 1968 and extended to other schools. -
The civil Rights Acts becomes law.
This law prohibits discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion or national origin. This event improved life for not only the multicultural education but but also for the work force! Employees will not be discrimination based on race and etc. This helped get equal pay for men and woman, won't deny employment opportunities for any person based of foreign looks or there different way of speaking. -
Immigration Act of 1965. AKA the Hart Cellar act.
This act allows more diversity into the classrooms. This was accomplished by president kennedy calling out the quota system because it favored northern and western Europe and avoided Asia and Africa. By taking the quota system out of play, this changed the population and made America more diverse and allowing more culture into the classrooms. -
The Coleman Report of 1966
This act lets African American children benefit from attending integrated schools. This act also made health, education, and welfare available to children of different race, color, religion, and national origin. -
The First African-American Woman Elected to Congress
Shirley Anita Chisholm was the first African American woman to be elected to congresswoman. She served 2 terms in the New York legislature. This became a huge deal and now gave opportunity to other men and woman of different religion to become Congress and more! -
Title IX of the Education Amendments
Title IX prohibits discrimination based on sex in all aspects of education. But it mostly focuses on woman rights it also can be used or men rights as well because we are all equals. -
The Equal Educational Opportunities Act
This Act Prohibits discrimination and forces schools to take action to any type of discrimination and protect all. Muslims, African American, Hispanics, and all races now have the opportunity to be equals and have the same level of education. This will be a step forward to letting students no matter the race to think big and follow there dreams just like very person around them. -
The Immigration and Nationality Act
This act allows more immigration to the US and improves laws for family visas, employment-based visas for priority workers and etc. With over 700,000 immigrants incoming to the US this immensely raised the number of diverse students and is giving opportunity for foreign students to achieve the American dream. -
Chicago board votes to close 50 schools
The Chicago board of education decided to close down 50 schools. African American students were the most effected by this decision and now are not going to school to get the education they deserve and almost 30,000 teachers were fired, leaving them jobless. -
U.S. School Enrollment Hits Majority-Minority Milestone
During this time minority students are to be 50.3 percent more non- hispanic students. This is a great success because this is history being improved, in previous years minority student didn't have the opportunity to go to school or even get the education that they needed, but now the number of minorities outnumber the non-hispanic caucasians.
