Special Education Laws

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  • Pennsylvania Association for retarded child (PARC) v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

    all persons considered mentally retarded could benefit from education and training
    schools provide free, public programs to educate and train that “appropriate to the child's capacity.”
    ”a regular public school class” was more beneficial to a child than a “special public school class”; a special class in a public school was more beneficial than any other
    If children were assigned to any class other than “regular public school class”, they were to be evaluated every two years.

  • Mills vs v. Board of education, district of Columbia

    … children who had disabilities were not to be denied admission, suspended, expelled, reassigned or transferred from regular public school classes without due process of law. A census of all children in the District of Columbia was to be completed to discover any children who were not attending public school. Each child was to have a periodic educational review.

  • The Education for All Handicapped Children Act (Public Law 94-142)

    This law became known as the “Bill of Rights” for students identified with disabilities and their families. PL 94-142 required states that received federal funds to provide to their students with disabilities…

  • Amendments to PL 94-142 changed name to Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

    Required students have a transition plan by the age of 16 years with activities and interagency linkages for living arrangements, vocational training, and/or additional education. Added social work and rehabilitation counseling as related services. Added autism and traumatic brain injury as disability categories.

  • Amendment to “Individuals with Disabilities Education Act” (IDEA)

    added ten changes to the previous law regarding discipline, participation in the general education curriculum and state assessments, transition planning, assistive technology, related services and structure of the IEP.

  • Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 was to bring IDEA of 1997 into alignment with No Child Left Behind Act

    Protection in evaluation Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) Zero reject/No exclusion Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) Procedural Safeguards Parental Participation