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Brown vs. Board
This is was a Supreme Court Case that begin the understanding that all people regardless of race, gender, or disability would have the right to a public education. -
John F. Kennedy Bill
The Maternal and Child and Mental Retardation Planning Act had granted $265 million in federal aid for over five years to help support programs for the disabled. -
Civil Rights Act
This law was signed by Lyndon B. Johnson and was a piece of legislation in the U.S. that outlawed major forms of discrimination against African Americans and women. It included racial segregation, ended unequal applications of voter regestration requirementss, and racial segregation in schools. It was the beginging of equal rights for all in education. -
Elementary and Seconday Act of 1965 (ESEA)
This act funded primary and secondary education. It emphasizes equal access to education and establishes high standards and accountability. -
Mills vs. Board
This case against the District of Columbia declared that studentss with disabilities must be given public education and that financial limitss were not an important point providing education to these students -
The Family of Educational Rights and Privacy Act
Parents are allowed to have access to all perssonally identificable information collected, maintained, or used by a school distirct regarding their own child. -
Education for All Handicapped Children Act
This amendment created two seperate, but related laws. One was the Education of the Handicapped Act Amendment of 1974, which was first to mention an appropriate education for all children with disabilities. The second law, the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, gave parents and students over age 18 the right to examine records kept in the students personal file. -
Rowely vs. Board
The court ruled that the students who qualify for special education services must have access to public programs that meet their needs, and that the program must be supported by services that enable students to benefit from instruction. -
The EAHCA is Emended
It makes clear that students and parents have rights under EAHCA which is now IDEA, and section 504. -
The Americans with Disabilities Act
ADA is a wide range of civil rights laws that prohibit, under certain circumstances, discrimination based on disability. -
No Child Left Behind Act
It required states to develop assessments in basic skills to be given to all students in certain grades. -
IDEA Reinactment/ Improvement Act
Special Education and related services should be designed to meet the unique learning needs of an eligible child with disabilites from the ages of 3 to 21.
