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History of Special Education
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Advocacy of Special Education
Advocacy groups fight to set up Special Education clases fo marginalized students -
Special Education teacher Training
Family advocacy group pressure leads to training programs to teach educatos to work with students with disabilities -
Bureau for Education of the Handicapped is estabished
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1st Legislation
Racial inequity concerns lead to IDEA, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act -
Supreme Court Rulings
2 rulings, in favour of PARC and Mills, determine that all students with disabilities have the same right to education as their no disabled peers -
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
This coves studens an parent fo discriiation due to disabilites -
Reauthorization of IDEA
Efffrts made to avoid compounding issues by misreprsenting disabilities and to hel reduce drop otof stdents I Special Ed. programs -
No Child Left Behind
Added further accountability for chools ad geve tech assistance and loans to schools requiring help with Special Education -
IDEA is reauthorized
Districts must monitor disproportionality o ethnic groups inSpecil Education classes. Local Educational Authoritis should use maximum allowed funds to intervene in these situations