Law History Special Education

  • Brown Verse Board of Education

    Was about students having the equal protection clause the Fourteenth Amendment violated. African American students where at different school than white children. Showed that the schools where different and the children where not being treated equal. The case was proven to have violated the Fourteenth Amendment and was justified that the schools are to be combined, so that all children get the same free education. This lead to the Civil Rights Act.
  • PARC verse Commonwealth of PA

    This case is about how the children with disability were being denied free education. The case showed that the schools were breaking the law not allowing kids with disability attend school. This was the first case that won equality for kids with disability to attend schools. Kids from the age of 6 to 21 can attend a regular school. This lead to the Education for all Handicapped Children act.
  • Armstrong Verse Kline

    This was a case about how 180 days of school violated the FAPE. Stating disability students should be able to go to school longer than a regular student would to help the children who are disabled. The result of this case was it does go against the law of free education and because of that we have the law of extended school year for children who qualify for it.This lead to the Armstrong group which a recent list of disabilities qualifies those children to attend extended school year programs.