This report of April 26, 1983 was produced by the National Commission on Excellence in Education, a body appointed by the Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell of the first Reagan Administration.
It greatly affected the federal politics of education, as discussed in the booklet Ronald Reagan and Education Policy.
President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB; P.L 107-110; 115 Stat. 1425) on January 8, 2002. NCLB is a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA).
The original ESEA was 32 pages long; NCLB —at the time of enactment— was 670 pages long.
This act (P.L. 89-10; 79 Stat. 27) was signed into law on April 11, 1965. It is the largest federal aid to K-12 schooling.
Note: When people speak of the No Child Left Behind Act, they are speaking of the 2002 revision of this 1965 law.
This law (P.L. 79-396; 60 Stat. 230) entered the federal government into schools dietary programs on June 4, 1946.
This is the first law (P.L. 64-347; 39 Stat. 929) that authorized federal government oversight of a portion of high school curricula. It was signed into law on February 23, 1917.
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