Clinton's+Educational+Policies

__The Clinton Presidency: Eight Years of Progress in Education__ Aug. 10 || //**Student Loan Reform**// The Clinton-Gore Administration created the Direct Student Loan Program, which cut red tape and administrative costs by eliminating subsidies and bureaucracy in the Student Loan Program. The program saved taxpayers $4 billion since 1993 and allowed interest rate reductions for students. (PL 103-66, signed 8/10/93). || March 31 || //**Goals 2000 Education Standards Enacted**// This legislation provided assistance to states to implement high standards and challenging curricula to help all children succeed. (PL 103-227, signed 3/31/94) [|Goals 2000] || President Clinton and Vice President Gore advocated for legislation increasing Head Start participation and quality. The new bill established minimum performance standards, strong accountability and created the Early Head Start program for children aged 0 to 3. (PL 103-252, signed 5/18/94) || This reauthorization of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act ended the era of lower expectations for disadvantaged children by insisting that all students be held to the same high academic standards. The bill also strengthened accountability for student performance and required states to turn around low-performing schools. [] || Feb. 24 || **//Encouraged the Adoption of School Uniforms//** President Clinton took steps to offer support and make it easier for schools to voluntarily adopt school uniform policies. || June 4 || //**﻿ **////**Individuals With Disabilities Education Act Reauthorized **// The expanded IDEA applies the same high academic standards for all children, ensuring that children with disabilities learn the same things with the same curricula and the same assessments as all other children. It also ensures that more children with disabilities can be in regular classrooms and take part in all school functions including field trips and extracurricular activities. (Signed 6/4/97) [|Individuals With Disabilitites Act] || President Clinton proposed and passed the largest increase in college opportunity since the GI bill. The HOPE Scholarship provides a tax credit of up to $1,500 for tuition and fees for the first two years of college. When fully phased-in, the Lifetime Learning tax credit will provide a 20 percent tax credits on the first $10,000 of tuition and fees for students beyond the first two years of college, or taking classes parttime. (PL 105 -34, signed 8/5/97) || The President succeeded in doubling investments in education technology, increasing charter school funding, expanding Head Start to reach more than 800,000 children, and increasing the maximum Pell Grant by 63 percent, to the largest maximum award ever. The Budget also provided $300 million for the President's America Reads Challenge. Together these programs are the most significant increase in education funding at the national level in 30 years. (PL - 105-34, signed 8/5/97) || The President set a national goal of making sure that every child can read independently by the end of third grade. || Oct. 21 || //**﻿ **////**<span style="color: #e81111; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Class Size Reduction Initiative Launched **// <span style="color: #e81111; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">After initially refusing to provide any funding at all, Congress agreed to provide $1.2 billion for the first year of the Presiddent's new initiative to hire 100,000 new teachers to reduce class size in the early grades to a national average of 18. This initiative is the first comprehensive effort to reduce class size across the nation. (PL 105-277, signed 10/21/98)
 * **1993**
 * **1994**
 * May 18 || **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">//Head Start Reform and Creation of Early Head Start// **
 * Oct. 20 || **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Improving America's Schools Act **
 * **1996**
 * **1997**
 * Aug. 5 || <span style="color: #e81111; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">//**﻿Hope Scholarships/Lifetime Learning Tax Credits**//
 * Aug. 5 || <span style="color: #da1616; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">﻿**//Landmark Education Investments: America Reads, Charter Schools, Education Technology//**
 * Aug. 27 || <span style="color: #e81111; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**//America Reads Child Literacy Initiative Launched//**
 * **1998**

//<span style="color: #e81111; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In 1998, a Clinton Administration initiative launched a series of dramatic funding increases for before-and after-school programs, turning a small demonstration program into one of the most popular Federal education program. // || <span style="color: #e81111; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The reauthorization of Head Start paved the way for further quality improvements, doubled participation in the Early Head Start program and moved toward the President's goal of improving quality Head Start opportunities for one million children. (PL 105-285, 10/27/98) || April 29 || <span style="color: #e81111; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">﻿ **//<span style="color: #e81111; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Education Flexibility Partnership Act of 1999 //** <span style="color: #e81111; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ed-Flex is designed to help districts and schools carry out educational reforms and raise the achievement levels of all children by providing increased flexibility in the implementation of federal education programs. In exchange, states are required to demonstrate enhanced accountbility fo the performance of all students. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">
 * //<span style="color: #e81111; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">21st Century Community Learning Centers //**
 * Oct. 27 || <span style="color: #e81111; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**//﻿Head Start Expansion and Reauthorization (Human Services Reauthorization Act)//**
 * **1999**