feb 5, 1969 - New Society Act Proposed

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Baxter introduces his comprehensive, omnibus New Society Act. Containing education, health care, justice, jobs and economic, and governance improvements, and advocating for the creation of a Department of Education spun out of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. the act includes: community ownership and participation (inspired by the Bedford-Stuyvesant model); direct employment programs; federal investment in Black urban development; expanded food assistance; free or low-cost community college, more generous Pell Grants, and robust funding for public universities; increased K–12 support with an equity focus - including a major federal role in desegregating school funding; protections for bilingual education or Head Start expansion; universal children’s coverage or extending it to poor families; federal health clinics in under served rural and urban areas; sentencing reform; juvenile justice rehabilitation; federal support for community policing or public defenders. The omnibus also includes Educational Amendments to Nixon's previous education bill, and includes Title IX, which in the future will form the backbone of sex-based discrimination in federally funded education programs cases.

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