The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), is a program created by the United States Department of Education and was signed by President Lyndon Baines Johnson. The act is to provide fundings for schools that have a high percentage of students who are coming from low-income families. The purpose of this law was to provide equal access to quality education for everyone. The act was signed to become a law on April 9, 1965. Since this time, the government gets the law recertified every five years (Social Welfare History Project, 2016). The Elementary and Secondary Education Act changed the U.S. educational system. For instance, Title I of the act offered much financial support to help students who are disadvantaged to achieve their …show more content…
The goal for the Department of Education is to provide equal access to all children regardless of their race, socioeconomic status, sex, and first language. The Department of Education supports early learning which is from zero to five months of age. It also supports preschool children who are four years old for low-income families (King, 2017, p. 2-4). The Department of Education is impacting students in a positive way and supporting them on whatever challenges they might face in life, such as poverty, health crisis, family problems, and violence. By helping them with these issues, students will be successful in …show more content…
The President is the head of the Executive Branch. The vice-president is also part of the branch to help and support the president when needed. The President of the United States is responsible for authorizing and building the laws that were written and presented by the Congress and the federal agencies. The president has the authority to sign bills that are created by the Congress and make them into laws, or reject them (The White House, n. d.). b. Explain how a branch of government can influence the policy you identified/ The Elementary and Secondary Education Act was mainly for the war on poverty to provide equal access to education for everyone. The act provides funds for resources to support programs for the students and their parents. Since the act was first created, it has been revised and many amendments have been made under it. For instance, the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) in 1981, Improving America’s Schools Act (IASA) of 1994, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, and Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015 (Social Welfare History Project, 2016). In 2015, President Barack Obama reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The purpose of this new law was to increase high school graduate and many students are now attending college more than ever (U.S. Department of Education, n.