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Provided that all citizens are entitled to "equal protection" of the law
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Originally formed as the Association of Medial Officers of American Institutions for Idiotic and Feeble-minded Persons. The name has evolved through the years to reflecting the advances in the understanding of people with disabilities.
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Passed in Louisiana requiring "equal, but separate" train car accommodations
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Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that a child who was "weak of mind" could be expelled from public school
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Decision by US Supreme Court that established the doctrine of "separate but equal"
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Compulsory Education laws are enacted in all states, but allowed exemptions for children mentally or physically unfit to attend
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Allowed a student to be expelled due to physical disabilities
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Supreme Court declared that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." Although this case was in the context of race, it would later be applied to students with disabilities.
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Enacted under President Johnson emphasizing equal access to education.
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Kennedy tours Willowbrook and speaks out against the state of the school bringing awareness to state run institutions for children with disabilities.
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Required the state to provide free public education to all children regardless of disability.
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Court ruled that students with disabilities must be given "free public education and training appropriate to their learning capacities."
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Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability
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This act required that all children with disabilities have access to education in public schools.
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The Rowley decision stated that special education services need to be reasonably likely to provide "some benefit" from the education provided.
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In 1990, Congress reauthorized EHA and the new act became IDEA.
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Parents sued a school district after they refused to provide a sign language interpreter for their deaf child after he transferred to a private school. The court mandated the school district to provide the government program.
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President Clinton reauthorized IDEA with amendments including access to same curriculum and an expansion of the definition of "developmental delay."
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In 2001, President Bush reauthorized the ESEA "to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education."
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Signed by President Bush, this amendment to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 gave broader definitions of disabilities.
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The court ruled that IDEA "requires an educational program reasonably calculated to enable a child to make progress appropriate in light of the child's circumstances."
