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Brown vs. Board of Education
On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court passed down the decision brought before them by Oliver Brown on behalf of his daughter Linda an African American student that was refused entrance into a school because of her race. https://www.acslaw.org/acsblog/the-meaning-of-brown-for-children-with-disabilities -
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Landmark Cases the have Influenced Special Education
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Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (PARC). V. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
In 1971, the Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (PARC) sued the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for a state law that allowed public schools to deny education to certain children, namely those who had not “attained a mental age of 5 years.(Li, 2013). The case was settled in early 1972 -
Forest Grove School District V. T. A.
In 2003, T.A., a former student in the Forest Grove School District, sought to be evaluated for suspected learning disabilities. In 2004, the Office of Administrative Hearings for the State of Oregon determined that T.A. was disabled and eligible for special education under the Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. (Oyez, 2018).