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Brown v. Board of Education
This court case decision caused schools to go from being segregated to everyone being able to be under the same ruff no matter what color or gender. -
The Elementary & Secondary Education Act
This Great Society program allocates federal funding for primary and secondary school education. Those who this act helps the most are children of low-income families, particularly rural, Native American, neglected, migrant, homeless and English language limited families are the primary target of the provisions of this bill. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act aims to provide for their long-term welfare by improving their schools and the resources available to them. -
Mills v. Board of Education of the District of Columbia
The U.S. District Court ruled that school districts were constitutionally prohibited from deciding that they had inadequate resources to serve children with disabilities because the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and extended rights to students with mental illness. -
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
This act applies to all public or private elementary, secondary, or post-secondary school of any state or local education agency that receives funds under an applicable program of the US Department of Education. gives parents or eligible students more control over their educational records, and it prohibits educational institutions from disclosing personally identifiable information in education records without written consent -
Education for all Handicapped Children Act
All public schools accepting federal funds to provide equal access to education for children with physical & mental disabilities. Public schools were required to evaluate children with disabilities and create an educational plan with parent input that would emulate as closely as possible the educational experience of non-disabled students and that school districts provide administrative procedures so that parents of disabled children could dispute decisions made about their children’s education. -
Amy Rowley v. Board of Education
Amy Rowley was deaf, but could hear very very little she was good at reading lips but when looked at for her IEP it was decided she needed a hearing aid to help make noises louder for her. Her parents wanted an interpreter in class with her as well but the school did not give her one and the parents sued them. The ruling was with school district and she had to stay in first grade without an interpreter for her. -
Honig v. Doe
This case ruled that a California school board had violated the Education for All Handicapped Children Act when it indefinitely suspended a student for violent and disruptive behavior that was related to his disability. In addition, the court affirmed that the state must provide services directly to students with disabilities when local school boards fail to do so. -
Americans with Disabilities Act
This act prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in several areas, including employment, transportation, public accommodations, communications and access to state and local government’ programs and services. -
No Child left behind
This event began requiring the states to measure the progress of students and groups of students, including students with disabilities, every year reporting the results of these measures to parents
requiring states to set proficiency standards that schools must attain within a set period. -
Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District
Endrew who was diagnosed with autism at two years old was not getting the proper education at his public school and was failing to meet his IPE goals so his parents removed him around the fourth grade, placed him in a private school where he was meeting his goals and doing well so they sued his old school. The court sided with Endrew and edited some of the standards of FAPE.
