{"id":16110,"date":"2016-03-14T20:43:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T20:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golive.clarku.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/14\/elizabeth-warren-hails-civil-rights-legacy-of-education-law\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T14:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T18:49:07","slug":"elizabeth-warren-hails-civil-rights-legacy-of-education-law","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/14\/elizabeth-warren-hails-civil-rights-legacy-of-education-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Warren hails civil rights legacy of education law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html><body><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Elizabeth Warren, whose first job after college was as a special needs instructor for young children and who went on to teach aspiring lawyers at Harvard Law School, was in full history lesson mode today as she drew connections between the federal governments main education law and the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 60s. In a speech Monday morning at an education symposium at Clark University, Warren praised the recent passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act, which replaced the deeply unpopular No Child Left Behind law of 2002. But she used the powerful history behind the law to explain, in the most detailed remarks she has offered to date, why she was part of an effort last year in Congress to insist on provisions in the new law designed to protect the interests of poor and minority children. (<a href=\"http:\/\/commonwealthmagazine.org\/education\/warren-hails-civil-rights-legacy-of-education-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CommonWealth Magazine<\/a>, March 14, 2016)\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"external-link\">Source:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/commonwealthmagazine.org\/education\/warren-hails-civil-rights-legacy-of-education-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Warren hails civil rights legacy of education law<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Elizabeth Warren, whose first job after college was as a special needs instructor for young children and who went on to teach aspiring lawyers at Harvard Law School, was in full history lesson mode today as she drew connections between the federal governments main education law and the civil rights struggles of the 1950s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"story_color":"#525250","story_headerImg":-1,"section_label":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[441],"displayed_author":[324],"featured":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-16110","story","type-story","status-publish","hentry","category-blogs","displayed_author-clark-news-and-media-relations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Elizabeth Warren hails civil rights legacy of education law | ClarkU News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/14\/elizabeth-warren-hails-civil-rights-legacy-of-education-law\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Elizabeth Warren hails civil rights legacy of education law\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sen. 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