Education Policy: Research: Historical Overview:
Federal Education Policy and the States, 1945-2009
The Nixon Years
Desegregation and Local Control
Congress and School Desegregation
The Supreme Court and Desegregation, 1972-1973
The Supreme Court and Desegregation, 1974
The Education Amendments of 1974
The Bilingual Education Act of 1974
School Funding - Serrano v. Priest
School Funding - San Antonio v. Rodriguez
School Funding and Federal Courts
Mainstreaming Special Education
Footnotes: The PDF version of this essay contains extensive footnotes that include numerous citations and supplementary text. For ease of reading, the footnotes are omitted from this version.
Organizations:
Links to many of the organizations mentioned in this essay.
To view snapshots of the political context for the education policy, organized by administration, see Education Policymakers. For the Nixon administrations, see 1969-1972 and 1973-1974.
