I'm writing a paper on the ties between the education system and the US government.

My question is, what are some major things that the government has done for the school system in the last 25 years?

Title I, Title II, Title VII, Title IX, etc.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Education+title+i&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7SUNA

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Check these sites for information about what the feds have done to help public education -- especially the last site about No Child Left Behind.

http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml

http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/role.html

http://www.nd.edu/~rbarger/www7/fedaid.html

http://www.ed.gov/nclb/landing.jhtml