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Early Special Education Programs
Delinquency prevention programs for “at risk” children who lived in the rough parts of the urban areas. These was the first program for special education programs. The reasons that these programs were made was to make-up for the regular education. These programs had hundreds of thousands of children working in carpentry, metal work, sewing, cooking and drawing in manual classes by the 1980's. But most early special education programs were private and/or residential. -
Exclusion of School for Children With Special Needs
Before the 1950's children with special needs were being excluded from public schools. Students who might have had serve disabilities was forced to be institutionalized. During this time some children with disabilities were dropping out of school at twice the rate of their peers who did not have disabilities. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
During the Brown vs. Board of Education case the supreme courts ruled that segregated school based on race was not constitutional. This was a major deal because this was the first time that the Federal Government stood up for students' inequality and prejudice. This case set the opportunity for children with disabilities with the legislations. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
The Elementary and Secondary Education act was passed in 1965. In this act the Federal Government wanted to be able to provide a better educational opportunity for children from less fortunate backgrounds. One of the things that ESEA provided was free and reduced lunch for children who might have not gotten meals at home. The ESEA also got the State to get grants to be able to improve instructional programs for children with disabilities. -
Vocational Rehabilitation Act
The Vocational Rehabilitation Act prevented that uses federal funds or any local or state organization from discriminating against people with disabilities. It prohibits discrimination not only in public school, but employment and social services as well. With this Act It opened a lot of opportunities for people with disabilities in the workplace, community, and in colleges. -
Handicapped Children Act
The Handicapped Children Act had required states to provide a free and appropriate public education for children with disabilities. It also required individualized education programs known as IEP. This allows children with needs to be able to be able to get specialize education plan to be able to met the needs of the children. -
IDEIA
IDEIA provided individuals with disabilities to be educated, employed, housing, and other rights that they did not previous have due to their disabilities. IDEIA had made many provisions, zero reject where no child with disabilities could be excluded from education. They also came up an IEP which stands for Individual Education Plan that creates a learning plan for a specific child. And Child Finds which when the states had numbers to track students with disabilities, plan for their education. -
The American Disability Act
ADA is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability. ADA is designed to help people with disabilities access the same employment opportunities and benefits available to people without disabilities. ADA prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities in all programs, activities, and services of public entities. -
No Child Left Behind
This act was in place to improve education for all student even children from low-income families. NCLB showed how to be able to achieve this plan. One of the components were to improve teacher equality, support instruction for English learners, school choice programs where parents can apply and send their kids to higher performance schools if a school is not in their district, and they also gave states more flexibility on how they wanted to spend their funds. -
The Every Student Succeeds Act ( ESSA)
The Every Student Succeeds Act was signed into law in December 2015 by President Barack Obama. This act served as commitment to equal opportunity with all students. This act was a replace of the Act No Child Left behind Act that was enacted in 2002. These bills focused on improving education for all students. ESSA shifted the accountability from the Federal Government to the state.