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Reauthorization Of ESEA

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In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson was the first to enact a civil rights law, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), to combat the achievement gap in low-income communities. ESEA provided Federal grants to districts with substantial numbers of low-income students to offset the cost of textbooks, library books, special education centers, scholarships for low-income college students, and to improve elementary and secondary education. While ESEA remains as the policy foundation to lessen the opportunity gap, it was not sufficient and improvements were needed (“Every Student Succeeds”, n.d.). In 2002, the Bush Administration, in an effort to enhance ESEA, reauthorized ESEA and enacted the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which required

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