Education for All

The president and his first teacher at the act signing.

LBJ Library / Frank Wolfe

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"I felt a very strong desire to go back to the beginnings of my own education," President Johnson said at a bill-signing here in 1965, "to be reminded and to remind others of that magic time when the world of learning began to open before our eyes."

The Johnson Administration saw the passage of over 60 education bills—more education legislation than in any other presidential administration. In comparison, only six major education bills were passed from the time of Lincoln to Kennedy. With such an interest in education, it was only fitting that President Johnson would come back to his first school to sign one of these major education bills.

Sitting at a picnic table outside the Junction School with his first teacher, Miss Katie Deadrich, at his side, President Johnson signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act on April 11, 1965. This landmark law for the first time provided extensive federal funding to the nation's schools.