Lyndon Johnson's Higher Education Facilities Act Of 1963

Johnson had a strong belief that education was the key to a thriving American society and therefore enacted many bills for the improvement of the education system. He passed the Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963 which included providing new college classrooms, new community colleges, more college loans, and better college libraries. In 1965 he passed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act which established that low-income households required more educational service than that out children from middle and upper-class families. The bill provided over $1 billion to the states to help provide school supplies and textbooks. Lyndon Johnson used education as an economic stimulus and through his work, uplifted the standard of educating American youth to a new level of success.
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He also called for an end to free tuition for state college and university students and 20 percent across-the-board cuts in higher education funding. Reagan's vision of limited government was taken too far as his emphasis on making education more equal and accessible to was significantly less than that of Johnson. Had his economic plans for education been successful, many Americans would have a much harder time obtaining strong education and be at a disadvantage in thriving for a brighter