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Coral Way Bilingual Elementary School Oral History Project
Coral Way Elementary School in Dade County, Florida, is considered to be the first public school bilingual bicultural education program for both English and Spanish speakers in the United States. It began as a way to make accommodations for the thousands of children of Cuban refugee families that streamed into southern Florida at the time of and just after the Castro’s Cuban revolution of 1959 and was subsidized by authorities. -
The Civil Right Act becomes Law
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, was considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. -
The Immigration and Nationality Act becomes Enacted
Among other provisions, the 1990 Immigration Act instituted the Diversity Visa Lottery Program. Starting from 1991, every year the Attorney General, decides from information gathered over the most recent five year period the regions or country that are considered High Admission or Low Admission States. A High Admission region or country is one that has had 50,000 immigrants or more acquire a permanent residency visa. -
Ebonics is Meant for African-American Children
On December 1996, a striking controversy sparked between Oakland School Board Member and superintendent Carolyn Getridge, and eduacation specialist Mary Hoover.The conversation was about how to incorporate the Ebonic language fort all African-American children. -
Proposition 187
The court-approved mediation that ended years of legal and political debate over Proposition 187, a controversial ballot that measured limited services to illegal immigrants. The agreement confirmed that no child in the state of California would be deprived of an education or stripped of health care due to their place of birth. It was also known that the state could not regulate immigration law, a function that the U.S. Constitution clearly assigned to the federal government. -
The No Child Left Behind Act gets Approved
In 2002, with bipartisan support, Congress reauthorized ESEA and President George W. Bush signed the law, giving it a new name: No Child Left Behind (NCLB). While NCLB put in place measures that exposed achievement gaps among traditionally underserved and vulnerable students and their peers, and started an important national dialogue on educational improvement. -
The Higher Education Act is Reauthorized
The Higher Education Act of 1965, was amended, and is the piece of federal legislation that authorizes most federal student assistance programs. It is often refered to by the abbreviation HEA. It must be reauthorized periodically, typically every 4 to 6 years. During reauthorization Congress usually makes changes and improvements in the legislation, such as adding new programs, streamlining existing programs and increasing authorized funding levels. -
Parents Get Involved with Community Schools vs Seattle School District
The Seattle School District allowed students to apply to any high school in the District. Since certain schools often became oversubscribed when too many students chose them as their first choice, the District used a system of tiebreakers to decide which students would be admitted to the popular schools. The second most important tiebreaker was a racial factor intended to maintain racial diversity. If the racial demographics of any school's student body deviated by more than a predetermined -
Barack Obama is Elected President of the U.S.
Barack H. Obama is the 44th President of the United States. After working his way through college with the help of scholarships and student loans, President Obama moved to Chicago, where he worked with a group of churches to help rebuild communities devastated by the closure of local steel plants. President Obama's years of public service are based around his unwavering belief in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose. -
President Obama announces Free Classes at Community Colleges for Two Years
On January 9, 2015, President Obama announces that Americans can attend communtity college tuition free under his direct proposal. He would dedicate at least 60 billlion over the next decade to defrain from tuition and fees. This is for any person living in the U.S who wants a higher education. Congress still has yet to approve this proposal.
