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Brown vs Board of Education
Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, the act has been the most far-reaching federal legislation affecting education ever passed by the United States Congress. -
PARC vs Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Case where the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was sued by the Pennsylvania Association of Retarded Citizens (PARC), now the Arc of Pennsylvania, over a law that gave public schools the authority to deny a free education to children who had reached the age of 8, yet had not reached the mental age of 5.
May 5, 1972 Both parties settled. -
Congressional Investigation
Congress launches an investigation into the status of children with disabilities and found that millions of children were not receiving an appropriate education. -
Mills vs Board of Education of District of Columbia
This case involved the practice of suspending, expelling and excluding children with disabilities from the District of Columbia public schools. The school district's primary defense in Mills was the high cost of educating children with disabilities. -
The Rehabilitation Act of 1973
To extend and revise the authorization of grants to States for vocational rehabilitation services, with emphasis on services to those with the most severe disabilities. -
Education for All Handicapped Children Act
President Ford signed law requiring all states that accepted money from the federal government were required to provide equal access to education for children with disabilities, in addition to providing them with one free meal per day. States had the responsibility to ensure compliance under the law within all of their public school systems. -
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Replaced the EHA in order to place more focus on the individual, as opposed to a condition that the individual may have. -
No Child Left Behind
President George W. Bush signed into law with overwhelming bipartisan support the No Child Left Behind Act -
Every Student Succeeds Act
Signed into law by President Obama after passing both Chambers of Congress with bipartisan support. Act retains standardized testing requirements but shifts the law's federal accountability provisions to states.
