We know you can’t wait until the upcoming ESEA reauthorization hearings, so here are some excerpts from hearings past to hold you over (Part 1):
January 26th, 1965 was the first day of hearings on the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, the landmark bill to provide substantial federal funds to school districts for the first time. The legislation, part of President Johnson’s War on Poverty, was intended to address the needs of educationally deprived children. Senator Robert F. Kennedy pressed Commissioner of Education Keppel and Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare Celebrezze to include a system of standardized testing to assure that children’s interests were protected:
