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Coral Way Elementary School
In response to an influx in Cuban immigrants to the Florida area after the Cuban Revolution, Coral Way Elementary was opened and starts the first bilingual and bicultural public school in the U.S. -
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act
On April 9, 1965, the ESEA was is passed into effect. The ESEA was created by President Johnson as part of his war on poverty. It gives federal funds to low-income students and started programs like Title 1 and bilingual education. Project Headstart was also started in 1965 as part of the War on Poverty. I know Headstart and Title 1 still exist today. -
Bilingual Education Act
The Bilingual Education Act was enacted in 1968. It is also referred to as Title VII. It was very controversial and in 2002 it was changed to The No Child Left Behind Act. It was the first act to recognize the needs of students whose first language was not English. -
Lau vs. Nichols
In 1974, Lau vs. Nichols determined that the San Francisco School District failed to teach Chinese-American children and their failure was a violation of the Civil Rights Act. The court required school districts to give equal opportunity to all students, including those that don't speak English. -
The Emergency Immigrant Education Act
In 1984, the Emergency Immigrant Education Act is created to make sure that the large number of immigrants are provided with services and also allots money for the school districts to offset their costs in when they have large numbers of immigrant children. -
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1990
The first comprehensive reform since 1965, this act increases annual immigration to 700,000, and allowed for family-sponsored visas, employment visas, for skilled workers and advanced professionals. It also allotted 55,000 visas for immigrants coming to the US from a country that has sent 50,000 or less people to the US. This increases the immigrant population and thus diversifies our public schools even further. -
The Improving America's Schools Act
In 1994, President Clinton passed the Improving America's Schools Act. This act reaffirms the ESEA of 1965 and reforms Title 1 and increased funding for bilingual education. It also has provisions for technology education, charter schools, and dropout prevention. -
Civil Rights Project
The Civil Rights Project report basically verifies what teachers had already been seeing in their schools and classrooms; there are less non-Hispanic Caucasian students, more Hispanic students, and schools and classrooms had become more segregated based on race and poverty, particularly effecting metropolitan areas. This is just an example of how far we still have to go. -
A milestone...
In the fall of 2014, minority enrollment out numbers non-Hispanic Caucasian enrollment in K-12 public schools. Although it demonstrates a diverse US, it still doesn't solve the issue of segregation happening due to poverty and race. -
Every Student Succeeds Act
In December of 2015, the senate votes 85-12 and Obama signs into effect, the Every Student Succeeds Act. This act reforms the ESEA and replaces the No Child Left Behind Act. It allows for more state control in education and controlling school quality.
