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The Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 (IASA) was a major part of the Clinton administration's efforts to reform education. It was signed in the gymnasium of Framingham High School (MA). It reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. President Bill Clinton signs the act at Framingham High School, October 1994.
The National Educational Goals, also known as the Goals 2000 Act were set by the U.S. Congress in the 1990s to set goals for standards-based education reform.The intent was for certain criteria to be met by the millennium (2000).
Clinton was the second-longest serving governor in the state's history, after Orval Faubus. [1] Clinton's first governorship (1979–1981) saw him pursue many liberal policies. He had some successes, including successes with a rural healthcare reform effort by a taskforce that he had appointed his wife, Hillary, to lead. However, his term also ...
In the early 1980s, Clinton made reform of the Arkansas education system a top priority of his gubernatorial administration. The Arkansas Education Standards Committee was chaired by Clinton's wife Hillary, who was also an attorney as well as the chair of the Legal Services Corporation. The committee transformed Arkansas's education system.
Clinton also battled Congress nearly every session on the federal budget, in an attempt to secure spending on education, government entitlements, the environment, and AmeriCorps–the national service program that was passed by the Democratic Congress in the early days of the Clinton administration.
Clinton's remarks concern the wage gap between high school and college graduates and general education reform. [177] July 17 – Clinton and his wife invited former President George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush back to the White House for the unveiling of the former's official White House portraits.
Establishes a board of advisers on historically black colleges and universities and moves the federal HBCU initiative from the Department of Education to within the executive branch, with the goal of increasing collaboration with the private sector and federal programs. Read Order Read article ; February 24, 2017
As a result of conflicts between Democratic President Bill Clinton and the Republican Congress over funding for education, the environment, and public health in the 1996 federal budget, the United States federal government shut down from November 14 through November 19, 1995, and from December 16, 1995, to January 6, 1996, for 5 and 21 days, respectively.