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Amended Title V of the Higher Education Act to improve teacher training. Pub. L. 90–35: 1968 Elementary and Secondary Education Amendments of 1967 Amended the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to include the Bilingual Education Act. Included the General Education Provisions Act. Made other minor amendments. Pub. L. 90–247: 1968
On July 31, 2018, President Donald Trump signed into law the re-authorization of the Act of 2018. The new law, the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century (Perkins V) Act, was passed almost unanimously by Congress. The Perkins IV re-authorization included three major areas of revision:
The next noteworthy piece of legislation passed by Congress pertaining to education was the Smith-Hughes Act which provided federal aid to vocational education programs across the country. Through the beginning of the 20th century, the federal government had a relatively small role to play in education, and its contributions focused mainly on ...
As public perception of federal education involvement continued to gain favor, additional pieces of legislation in the 1960s and 1970s paved the path for a formal Department of Education: The ...
The George–Barden Act was enacted to expand federal funding for vocational training in high schools, the National School Lunch Act of 1946 provided assistance for students to obtain school meals, and President Truman assigned a commission to write the Higher Education for American Democracy report.
The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA, Pub. L. 93–203) was a United States federal law enacted by the Congress, and signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 28, 1973 [1] to train workers and provide them with jobs in the public service. [2]
The Committee on Education and Workforce is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives. There are 45 members of this committee. There are 45 members of this committee. Since 2025, the chair of the Education and Workforce committee is Republican Tim Walberg of Michigan .
America’s first federal Department of Education was also its most short-lived. Signed into law in 1867 after the Civil War by president Andrew Johnson, it was demoted by Congress the very next ...