The Elementary and Secondary Education Act 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
Lyndon B. Johnson at the ESEA signing ceremony, with his childhood schoolteacher Ms. Kate Deadrich Loney
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The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 was a 2002 United States act of Congress promoted by the presidential administration of George W. Bush. It reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
…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. Johnson proposed a major reform of federal education policy in the aftermath of his landslide victory in the 1964 United States presidential election…
President George W. Bush signing the No Child Left Behind Act
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