<P> On January 25, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson Congressional to improve education opportunities for America's children . Wary of popular fears regarding increased federal involvement in local schools, the Johnson administration advocated giving local districts great leeway to use the new funds, which were to be first distributed as grants to each state . Shortly thereafter, Carl D. Perkins (D - KY), the chair of the General Education Subcommittee of the House Committee on Education and Labor introduced H.R. 2362 . With the Johnson administration's support, and after significant wrangling over the structure of the bill's funding formula committee, the full committee voted 23--8 to report it on March 2, 1965 . Following a failed attempt to derail the bill by Representative Howard K. Smith (D - VA), the House passed H.R. 2362 on March 26, 1965 in a 263--153 roll - call vote . </P> <P> As the Senate prepared to consider the education bill, S. 370, Democratic leaders urged their colleagues to pass it without amendment, so as to avoid throwing it back to the House for reconsideration . S. 370 was assigned to the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee, which subsequently reported the bill to the Senate floor with unanimous support . During the Senate debates, several amendments were introduced, though none passed . The Senate passed the bill in a 73--18 vote on April 7, 1965 . </P> <P> President Johnson signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act into law two days later on April 9, 1965 . </P> <Ul> <Li> Title I--Financial Assistance To Local Educational Agencies For The Education Of Children Of Low - Income Families </Li> <Li> Title II--School Library Resources, Textbooks, and other Instructional Materials </Li> <Li> Title III--Supplementary Educational Centers and Services </Li> <Li> Title IV--Educational Research And Training </Li> <Li> Title V--Grants To Strengthen State Departments Of Education </Li> <Li> Title VI--General Provisions </Li> </Ul>

When was the elementary and secondary education act created