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Nobel Prize winner and leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4th. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday, observed on the third Monday of January, celebrates his "life and legacy." (eds-resources.com)
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Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 becomes law, illegalizing discrimination based on sex, within the edicatuon system.
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The National Association of Bilingual Education is founded
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The Refugee Act of 1980, enacted by President Jimmy Carter, reformed immigration law to admit 3 million refugees and their school aged children.
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Law denying access to public education for undocumented school-age children in Texas is deemed a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
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The Emergency Immigrant Education Act is enacted to provide services and offset the costs for school districts that have unexpectedly large numbers of immigrant students. (ed-resources.com)
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California prop 187 passes, denying benefits, including free education, to illegal aliens and their children. This is eventually overturned.
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Terrorists successfully attack the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and plan to attack other buildings, on the morning of September, 11th. 2001, leaving the nation, and the world, devastated.
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.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 race cannot be a factor in assigning students to high schools thus rejecting integration plans in Seattle and Louisville, and possibly affecting similar plans in school districts around the nation. (eds-resources.com)
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Transgendered students allowed to use the bathroom of the sex in which they identify.
