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Lazarin, Melissa – Center for American Progress, 2011
The charter school landscape is dramatically different today compared to when the federal government first forayed into the field in 1994. That year it established the Charter School Program as part of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, or ESEA. The Charter School Program, which is designed to support the startup of new public charter…
Descriptors: Accountability, Charter Schools, Quality Control, School Activities
Jeffrey, Julie Roy – 1978
President Lyndon Johnson's support of Federal aid to education rested on the belief that schools were effective agents of upward mobility in American Life. Achievement in school, poverty planners thought, was directly related to later economic status. The question of whether poverty planners were justified in making these assumptions in developing…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Economic Opportunities, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education