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Brown V. Board of Education
Topeka case that it was unconstitutional for educational institutions to segregate children by race -
ESEA Act
Signed by Lyndon B. Johnson as parte of the "War of Poverty" . Equal access for education to all students. -
Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (PARC)
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania sided in favor of students with intellectual and learning disabilities to be placed in publicity funded school settings that met their individual educational needs, based on a proper and through evaluation. -
Mills V. Board of Education of the District of Columbia case.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia students classified as "exceptional" -including those with mental and learning disabilities and behavioral issues. -
PARC and Mills ruling
Congress set out to uncover how many children with special education needs were being undeserved. -
Education for all Handicapped Children Act
Otherwise known as Public Law. This law required all states that accepted money from the federal government were required to provide equal access to education for children with disabilities, in addition to providing them with one free meal per day. -
Public Law 99-457
Was an amendment to the All Handicapped Children Act which mandated that individual states provide services to families of children born with disabilities from the time they are born. Previously these services were not available until a child reached the age of three. -
The Handicapped Children's Protection ACt
A law that gave parents of children with disabilities more say in the development of their child's individual Education Plan, or IEP. -
President Clinton Reauthorized IDEA
Amendments that emphasized providing all students with access same curriculum, additionally, states were given the authority to expand the "developmental delay" definition from birth through five years of age to also include students between the ages of six and nine. -
Congress Amended IDEA
By calling for early intervention for students, greater accountability and improved educational outcomes. and raised the standards for instructors who teach special education classes, it also required states to demand that local school districts shift up to 15 percent of their special education funds toward general education if it were determined that a disproportionate number of students from minority groups were placed in special education for reasons other than disability.
