Overview
Elementary School buildings are the setting for the first four to eight years of a child’s formal education, a period of structured schooling that is compulsory in most countries. In the United States, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), first enacted in 1965 and recently reauthorized by the No Child Left Behind Act, is the principal federal law that affects kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12) education. Elementary school usually begins for children aged four(…)