Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974
Congress passed the EEOA as a house bill amending the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The only legislative history available for reference is from a similar bill passed in 1972. The House Committee on Education and Labor noted that the bill was significant in that it contained the first "illustrative definition of a denial of equal educational opportunity", and that this lent clarity to schools, governmental authorities, and students as to what, precisely, their rights were.
History of education in England
The "Elementary Education (School Attendance) Act 1893" raised the school leaving age to 11. The "Elementary Education (Blind and Deaf Children) Act" of the same year extended compulsory education to blind and deaf children, and made provision for the creation of special schools.