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Replaced the Adult Education Act and the National Literacy Act. Pub. L. 105–220 (text) 1998 Higher Education Amendments of 1998 Pub. L. 105–244 (text) 1998 Charter School Expansion Act of 1998: Amended the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to make charter schools eligible for federal funding. Pub. L. 105–278 (text) 1998
Under the Higher Education Act, the federal government provides financial support for qualifying institutions and students. [18] The Federal Student Aid office is responsible for financial support programs, and it provides student financial aid in the form of grants, scholarships, loans, and work-study jobs for qualifying students.
Early Childhood Education Act; Education Amendments of 1972; Education for All Handicapped Children Act; Education for Economic Security Act; The Education Professions Development Act of 1967; Elementary and Secondary Education Act; Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title III Part A; Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pregnant and Parenting Student ...
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 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was passed by the 89th United States Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on April 11, 1965. Part of Johnson's "War on Poverty", the act has been one of the most far-reaching laws affecting education passed by the United States Congress, and was reauthorized by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
The first piece of federal education legislation passed by Congress was the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act.This bill was passed as a means for the Federal government to provide land proportional to the number of Congressmen and Senators a state had for states to use to create agricultural colleges. [3]
Carter proclaimed the importance of education to the nation’s security and its future, and sought to increase the accountability of federal education programs to the president. The act creating ...
The United States Department of Education is a cabinet-level department of the United States government.It began operating on May 4, 1980, having been created after the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was split into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services by the Department of Education Organization Act, which President Jimmy Carter signed into ...