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Elementary/ Secondary Edu. Acts (ESLEA-Public Law 93-112)
-Supports many initiatives that help low-income family’s access high quality edu. -Applies to children who need additional support to benefit from public school edu. Programs. -
Vocational Rehabilitation Act (VRA-Public Law 93-112)
Defines:
Handicapped
Person and appropriate education
-Prohibits discriminations against student with disabilities. -
Educational Amendments Act(Public Law 93-380)
-Provides the first federal funding of state programs for student who are gifted and talented. -Grants students and families the right of due process in special edu. Placement. -
Americans with Disability Act (ADA)(Public Law 101-336)
-Prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in the private sector.
-Protects equal opportunity to employment and public services, accommodations, transportation, and telecommunications. -
Individuals with Disabilities Act (ADA) (Public Law 101-476)
-Establishes “people first” language for referring to people with disabilities.
-Requires state to educate students with disabilities for transition to employment, and to provide transition services. -
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) (Public Law 105-17)
-Requires schools to assume greater responsibility for ensuring that students with disabilities have access to the general education curriculum.
-Requires a general education teacher to be a member of the IEP team.
-Requires students with disabilities to take part in statewide and districtwide assessments -
No Child Left Behind(NCLB)
-Improves performance by increasing school, district and state accountable for all students. -Provides more flexibility for state funding -Implement early reading interventions
*Signed into Law Jan. 8th 2002 -
IDEIAPublic Law 108-446
-Allows districts to use a response to intervention (RTI) model. -Increase funds to provide early intervention
