The actual bill was attached to another law in 1950,
however, The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was signed into law by
President Johnson in April 11,1965. The original statute contained six sections and was
established to provide federal monies for "professional development, instructional
materials, resources to support educational programs, and parental involvement
promotion." The original law forbid the development or implementation of a national
curriculum and left most of the power with individual states. The federal statute was
enacted April 11, 1965. The law must be reauthorized on a periodic bias. The most
controversial re-authorization was No Child Left Behind; signed into law by George
Bush. ESEA was written so that it not only had to be reauthorized but it could be
amended. This is why so many dates are attached to this specific law. As each
re-authorization cycles around legislators want to "improve" or just change the
original. One of the positive impacts of these amendments was Title IX which opened up
sports for young women and created scholarships for women to go to
college.
"President Johnson signed the Elementary and
Secondary Act [ESEA] (PL 89-10) at the former Junction Elementary School in Stonewall,
Texas. This was the first general aid-to-education program ever adopted by Congress and
it provided programs to help educate disadvantaged children in city slums and rural
areas. (ESEA was technically an amendment to a 1950 “impacted area” act and was amended
in 1965, ‘66, ‘67, and ‘70.)"
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