Timetoast, Timeline of Landmark Legislation

By MAR2262883

  • Plessy V .Ferguson

    The U.S. Supreme Court decided that the state of Louisiana had the right to require "separate but equal" railroad cars for Blacks and whites. It became a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal". This meant that the federal government officially recognizes segregation as legal. One result was that southern states pass laws requiring racial segregation in public schools.

  • Immigration Act of 1917

    Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act. A law that restricted the immigration of 'undesirables' from other countries. Including "idiots, imbeciles, epileptics, alcoholics, poor, criminals, beggars, any person suffering attacks of insanity. Aimed to restrict immigration by imposing literacy tests on immigrants, creating new categories of inadmissible persons, and barring immigration from the Asia-Pacific zone.

  • Progressive Movement

    A period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned the 1890s to the 1920s. The movement primarily targeted political machines and their bosses. Many progressives supported prohibition of alcoholic beverages, ostensibly to destroy the political power of local bosses based in saloons, but others out of a religious motivation. By taking down these corrupt representatives in office, a further means of direct democracy would be established.

  • Brown v. the Board of Education, Topeka

    One of the most crucial opinions ever rendered by that body. This landmark decision highlights the U.S. Supreme Court’s role in affecting changes in national and social policy. When people think of the case, they remember a little girl whose parents sued so that she could attend an all-white school in her neighborhood. The Supreme Court unanimously agrees that segregated schools are "inherently unequal" and must be abolished.

  • Immigration Act of 1924

    Limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas. Two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890. An act of Congress makes Native Americans U.S. citizens for the first time.

  • Title IX

    This law protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities. No person in the United States based on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, or be denied. Should not subjected to discrimination under any activity receiving Federal financial assistance. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights enforces, among other statutes.

  • Education of all Handicapped Children Act

    This act was enacted by the United States Congress in 1975. This act required all public schools accepting federal funds to provide equal access to education. Provide one free meal a day for children with physical and mental disabilities.Public schools were required to evaluate children with disabilities and create an educational plan with parents. Input that would emulate as closely as possible the educational experience of non-disabled students

  • Pyler v. Doe

    Texas education in 1975 allowed to withhold from local school state funds for educating children of illegal parents. This was decided together with Texas v. Certain Named and Unnamed Child. Court thought that illegal parents and their children, not citizens of the United States or Texas, are people "in any ordinary sense of the term" and, therefore, are afforded the 14th protections. Since the state law disadvantaged the children of illegal parents, by denying them the right of education.

  • Save Our State (SOS)

    To establish a state-run citizenship screening system. Prohibit illegal immigrants from using non-emergency health care, public education, and other services in the State of California. Making it illegal for children of undocumented immigrants to attend public school. Opponents believed the law was discriminating against illegal immigrants of Hispanic or Asian origin

  • Proposition 227

    California ballot proposition passed on the June 2, 1998. Ballot. Proposition 227 was repealed by Proposition 58 on November 8, 2016. According to Ballotpedia, Proposition 227 changed the way that "Limited English Proficient" students are taught in California. The bill's intention was to educate Limited English proficiency students in a rapid, one-year program.

  • Zelman v. Simmons-Harris

    Was a 5-4 decision of the United States Supreme Court that upheld an Ohio program that used school vouchers. The Ohio Pilot Scholarship Program allowed certain Ohio families to receive tuition aid from the state. This would help the cost of tuition at private, including parochial (religiously affiliated), schools. The Supreme Court rejected First Amendment challenges to the program.

  • Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)

    Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Was signed by President Obama on December 10, 2015 and represents good news for our nation’s schools. This measure reauthorizes the 50-year-old Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The nation’s national education law and longstanding commitment to equal opportunity for all students. Modified but did not eliminate provisions relating to the periodic standardized tests given to students.