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Browns Vs Board Of Education
In a case argued by NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall, the Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous decision that the "separate but equal" doctrine was unconstitutional because it violated Fourteenth Amendment rights by separating students solely on the classification of the color of their skin. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act was passed in 1965 as a part of the "War on Poverty." It emphasizes equal access to education and establishes high standards and accountability. -
Education for All Handicapped Children Act
This law was created in an effort to provide an appropriate education, which required all schools receiving federal funding to provide handicapped children equal access to education and mandated that they be placed in the least restrictive educational environment possible. -
Americans With Disabilities Act
Prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, transportation, public accommodation, communications, and governmental activities. The ADA also establishes requirements for telecommunications relay services. -
Reauthorization Of Americans With Disabilities Education Act
A United States federal law that governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education, and related services to children with disabilities. It addresses the educational needs of children with disabilities from birth to age 18 or 21. -
No Child Left Behind
It was a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, an act to close the achievement gap with accountability, flexibility, and choice, so that no child is left behind. -
Reauthorization Of Individuals With Disabilities Education Act
President George Bush signed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act, which will help children learn better by promoting accountability for results, enhancing parent involvement, using proven practices and materials, providing more flexibility, and reducing paperwork burdens for teachers. states and local school districts -
Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot twenty children and six adult staff members in a mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the village of Sandy Hook in Newtown, Connecticut. Before driving to the school, Lanza shot and killed his mother Nancy at their Newtown home. As first responders arrived, he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. -
Peru will not prosecute former President over sterilization campaign
Peru will not prosecute former President Alberto Fujimori and his cabinet over a sterilization campaign that was part of a birth control program in the 1990s -
Krystian Herba Breaks His Own World Record
Krystian Herba, a Polish extreme cyclist, jumps up the steps of Eureka Tower on a bicycle as he breaks a Guinness World Record in Melbourne, Australia. Herba jumped up 2,919 steps on his bicycle in 1 hour, 45 minutes without supporting himself with his hands or feet to break his own record. -
Feeding Birds
A child & her mother brave the cold to feed birds in Minsk, Belarus -
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish protester
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish protester pulls the tail of a horse used by policemen to disperse protesters during a demonstration in Jerusalem. Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel blocked highways & clashed with police to protest a government decision to cut funds to seminary students who avoid military service -
Woman Faked Pregnancy Before Stealing Relative's Baby
Federal prosecutors charged Kristen Smith, 31 of Denver with kidnapping her half-sister's newborn boy from a Wisconsin home hours after police discovered the infant in a tote bag outside an Iowa gas station alive and well in single-digit weather. -
Frozen Bird
A bird perches next to ice-covered sneakers hanging from utility lines after a winter storm in Philadelphia on Feb. 5. Icy conditions knocked out power to more than 200,000 electric customers in southeastern Pennsylvania -
Alps Tourist Train Derails In France
Two people were killed and nine were injured when an enormous boulder smashed into the Train of the Pines, which runs from the southern French city of Nice to Digne-les-Bain. -
Hits Breakwater
Spanish freighter Luno hits the breakwater and is split in half near Bayonne, France. All crew members were winched to safety by helicopter.
