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Little Rock 9
Stepping stone to a diverse cultural education system in America. Federal troops enforce integration and enroll the first 9 African Americans at Central High School in Little Rock, AR in accordance of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. -
Engel v. Vitale
USSC ruled that New York's Regents prayers violates 1st Amendment. "State officials may not compose an official state prayer reciting in the public schools at the beginning of each school day. Church v. State -
Association for Children with Learning Disabilities
Sam A. Kirk termed "learning disability" in conference for children with perceptual disorders, who helped form in 1964 Association for Children with Learning Disabilities, later to become Learning Disabilities Association of America. -
First Bilingual and Bicultural public school in US
Coral Way Elementary School at the time of the Cuban Revolution responded appropriately to the large Cuban immigrant children population. Thus becoming the first multicultural public school in the nation. -
Immigration Act of 1965
President Johnson signs the Immigration Act of 1965 or the Hart-Cellar Act, abolishing the National Origins Formula resulting in a flood of Asians and Latin Americans migrating to the United States, making American classrooms more diverse. -
Title VII
Bilingual Education Act becomes law, later to be repealed in 2002 with the No Child Left Behind Act. -
Title IX
Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972 becomes law, this law prohibits discrimination based on sex in all aspects of education. -
Lau v. Nichols
USSC rules that San Francisco School District failed to provide English language instruction to Chinese-American students with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) was violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -
Refugee Education Assistance Act
President Carter signed this bill into law in response to the Refugee Act of 1980, that resulted in more than three million refugees in the US along with many children who bring special needs and issues to their classrooms. -
Transgender Students Allowed to use Identified Bathrooms
Federal govt. tells school districts to allow transgender students to use the bathroom their gender identifies to. All though it isn't law, districts that don't comply could face lawsuits or lose federal aid.
