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Brown v. The Board of Education, Topeka
Oliver Brown filled a class action against the board of education. This started when an all white school denied his daughter Linda Brown the entrance to a Topeka's all white school. Brown claimed that black and white schools were not equal. The case was decided om May 17, 1954 where Warren stated that ‘separate but equal’ has no place,” as segregated schools are “inherently unequal.” -
Engel v. Vitale
A group of parents sued a school in New York. Stating that the voluntary prayer that was said every morning was against the first Amendment. Americans have a wide spread of beliefs and belief the church and education so be separate. -
Title IX
Title IX was passed on June 23 1972, signed by President Richard Nixon part of the Education Amendments of 1972. This protects people from discriminated by their sex in any program that federally funded. -
Lau v. Nichols
Chinese group of students that attended San Francisco Unified School District brought a class action against them. These Chinese students came from immigrant families and struggled daily to participate and understand their classes. Court ruled in favor of the students stating that failure to provide support for the non-speaking students was discrimination. With this ruling other school were obligated to offer ESL services to students. -
Education of all Handicapped Children Act
President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act on November 29,1975. This would guarantee free public education to each child that that a disability. Their four purposes are provide special education that meets children needs. To make sure parents and children rights are protected. To assist the states with the education of children with disabilities. To assure the efforts of educating children with disabilities. -
Board of Education v Rowley
Amy Rowley parents filed a lawsuit against the board of education. Stating that the school failed to give their daughter an adequate education. Amy parents felt that their daughter was not receiving the guaranteed education that could maximizes her education. The court ended up siding with the board of education. The Free Appropriate Public Education does not require that a child with disabilities maximizes his potential abilities but it does require that appropriate education for child needs. -
Pyler v Doe
A group of immigrants children with their parents sued the state of Texas for denying them education. The state of Texas allowed the public schools to deny admission of charge tuition to immigrant children. In 1977 Tyler Independent School District was charging immigrant children the yearly tuition of $1000 for those who did not have documentation that they where citizen. On June 15, 1982 the court stated that could not deny children of education, request citizenship paperwork. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Homer Plessy was a man of mixed raced. Plessy purposely sat in the white-only seats in a railroad car to challenge the segregation laws separate but equal. Meaning that as long as everything was equal quality it did not violate the 14th amendment so they could keep blacks and white separated. They 14th amendment equal protection clause made it legal to segregate black and whites in all public areas for example school, bus stations, housing etc.