The federal government of the United States has limited authority to act on education, and education policy serves to support the education systems of state and local governments through funding and r
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building
President Lyndon B. Johnson at the signing of the ESEA with his childhood schoolteacher. (1965)
President Obama at the signing of the ESSA. (2015)
Campus of the federally run United States Military Academy
Historically Black colleges and universities are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of serving African A
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania was founded in 1837 as the Institute for Colored Youth, making it the oldest HBCU in the nation.
President George H. W. Bush signs a new Executive Order on historically Black colleges and universities in the White House Rose Garden, April 1989.
North Carolina A&T State University is the nation's largest HBCU by enrollment.