Elementary And Secondary Education Act Research Paper
Sydney Daughtry
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act was created and passed by Lyndon B. Johnson. He encouraged Congress to find new ways education could be easily provided for the citizens of America. To this day, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act has been the most influential federal legislation improving education passed by the United States Congress.
The ESEA made educational opportunities possible and equal to all. It funds primary and secondary education and focuses on being reliable and having high standards. The funds are authorized for professional development, materials to help teach students with disabilities, resources to support educational programs, and encouraging parents …show more content…
While attending Southwest Texas State Teachers College, Johnson had a job teaching at a school in Cotulla, Texas, where the majority of the students were Mexican American. Seeing the intense amount of poverty within his students made him realize a change needed to be done.
Later in Johnson’s life, when he worked in state politics, he had ties with the Mexican American community in Texas. These ties were very personal and deep. Having such relations with the Mexican American community certainly helped the Kennedy-Johnson ticket with Texas in the election for presidency in 1960.
In 1960, Lyndon B. Johnson was elected Vice President of the United States. After the assassination of John F. Kennedy, LBJ became the 36th President of the United States.
Johnson used his legislative abilities to pass a tax cut bill and a civil rights act bill. Both bills were supported by Kennedy, but Kennedy was unable to get Congress on board by the time he passed away. The civil rights act bill later became the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It became the first civil rights law since Reconstruction that truly did what it was supposed to. It made segregation and discrimination illegal in …show more content…
In Johnson City, Texas, Johnson gave his remarks on signing the act. In his speech, he said, “... the House of Representatives, by a vote of 263 to 153, and the Senate, by a vote of 73 to 18, have passed the most sweeping educational bill ever to come before Congress. It represents a major new commitment of the federal government to quality and equality in the schooling that we offer our young people. By passing this bill, we bridge the gap between helplessness and hope for more than five million educationally deprived children. We put into the hands of our youth more than 30 million new books, and into many of our schools their first libraries. We reduce the terrible time lag in bringing new teaching techniques into the nation's classrooms. We strengthen state and local agencies which bear the burden and the challenge of better education. And we rekindle the revolution--the revolution of the spirit against the tyranny of
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act was created and passed by Lyndon B. Johnson. He encouraged Congress to find new ways education could be easily provided for the citizens of America. To this day, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act has been the most influential federal legislation improving education passed by the United States Congress.
The ESEA made educational opportunities possible and equal to all. It funds primary and secondary education and focuses on being reliable and having high standards. The funds are authorized for professional development, materials to help teach students with disabilities, resources to support educational programs, and encouraging parents …show more content…
While attending Southwest Texas State Teachers College, Johnson had a job teaching at a school in Cotulla, Texas, where the majority of the students were Mexican American. Seeing the intense amount of poverty within his students made him realize a change needed to be done.
Later in Johnson’s life, when he worked in state politics, he had ties with the Mexican American community in Texas. These ties were very personal and deep. Having such relations with the Mexican American community certainly helped the Kennedy-Johnson ticket with Texas in the election for presidency in 1960.
In 1960, Lyndon B. Johnson was elected Vice President of the United States. After the assassination of John F. Kennedy, LBJ became the 36th President of the United States.
Johnson used his legislative abilities to pass a tax cut bill and a civil rights act bill. Both bills were supported by Kennedy, but Kennedy was unable to get Congress on board by the time he passed away. The civil rights act bill later became the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It became the first civil rights law since Reconstruction that truly did what it was supposed to. It made segregation and discrimination illegal in …show more content…
In Johnson City, Texas, Johnson gave his remarks on signing the act. In his speech, he said, “... the House of Representatives, by a vote of 263 to 153, and the Senate, by a vote of 73 to 18, have passed the most sweeping educational bill ever to come before Congress. It represents a major new commitment of the federal government to quality and equality in the schooling that we offer our young people. By passing this bill, we bridge the gap between helplessness and hope for more than five million educationally deprived children. We put into the hands of our youth more than 30 million new books, and into many of our schools their first libraries. We reduce the terrible time lag in bringing new teaching techniques into the nation's classrooms. We strengthen state and local agencies which bear the burden and the challenge of better education. And we rekindle the revolution--the revolution of the spirit against the tyranny of