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Law Mandating Compulsory Education
Rhode Island passed a law mandating compulsory education for all children. Compulsory education is education in which children are required by law to receive and for governments to provide. -
Association of Instructors of the Blind 1870
The school for the Deaf snd the School for Blind offer comprehensive educational programs for hearing and visually impaired students. -
Beattie v. Board of Education
Special needs students were expelled from school due to facial abnormalities and drooling. The students mental capacities were fine, but teachers and fellow students were nauseated by these students physical conditions. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
The ESEA did not make it law to educate students with disabilities but it fit give grants to state schools sand institutions that put into place programs to educate students with disabilities.
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Assistive Technology Act Programs
Under the law, each U.S. state receives a grant to fund Assistive Technology Act Programs (ATAP) that provide services to persons with disabilities for their entire lives. The 56 ATAPs created under the law provide a place where users can go for product demonstrations, low-cost loans for their purchases and information on these products. -
Section 504
Section 504 forbids organizations and employers from excluding or denying individuals with disabilities an equal opportunity to receive program benefits and services. It defines the rights of individuals with disabilities to participate in, and have access to, program benefits and services. -
FERPA
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 is a United States federal law that governs the access to educational information and records by public entities such as potential employers, publicly funded educational institutions, and foreign governments. https://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html -
EHA
To ensure that special education services are available to children who need them
To guarantee that decisions about services to students with disabilities are fair and appropriate
To establish specific management and auditing requirements for special education
To provide federal funds to help states educate students with disabilities -
ADA special education
The ADA prohibits discrimination on the basis of a qualified disability and ensures that qualified disabled students can have equal access and opportunity for participation in the programs, services and activities offered by a recipient of federal financial assistance -
IDEA ACT
A law that ensures free education for any and all students with disabilities.
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act is a piece of American legislation that ensures students with a disability are provided with a Free Appropriate Public Education that is tailored to their individual needs. IDEA was previously known as the Education for All Handicapped Children Act from 1975 to 1990.