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Brown v Board of Education 1954
The Supreme Court rules that segeration in public schools is unconstitutional and a violation of the 14th amendment. The beginning of equality in American Education. -
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
This act provided state and federal money to states which was used to improve opportunities for disadvantaged students. This was apart of Presidet Lyndon B Johnson's "War on Poverty" and was a commitment to having eual asscess to quality education. It was amended in 1966 to provide federal funding for expansion in programs for children with disabilties. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act Amendments of 1968
A set of programs was established that supplemented and supported the expansion and improvement of Special Education services. -
Diana v CA State Board of Education 1970
Before this case the primary language used to test students for intellectual disability. The questions depended on verbal responses and the questions where cuturally bisaed. Diana was one of nine students who where being tested for disabilities but these students spoke Spanish and the tset was in Englisj, the objective was for the students to be retest in their primary language. The court ruled in favor of Diana and the students where retested in their language. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act Amendments of 1970
Included Title VI, the Education of the Handicapped Act, established a core grant program for state and local educational agencies and authorized a number of discrentionary programs. -
PARC v. Commonwealth of PA 1972
The commonwealth of Pennsylvania was sued by the PARC (now called The Arc of Pennslyvania) over a law that gave public schools the ability to deny students with diasbilities free education. This required schools to provide a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) -
Mills v Board of Education 1972
Court ruled that students with disabilties must be given a public education. -
Vocational Rehabiliation Act Public Law 93-112
This federal civil rights law prohibits discrimination of people with disabilities in any program that receives federal funding. Specifically students in public and publicly supported schools but also applies to employment of those with disabilities. -
Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975
Congress encated the EHA, which ensures that handicapped children in public schools would get one free meal a school day and just access to education. Eventually this act was changed to the IDEA act in 1990. -
Hendrick Hudson School v. Rowley 1982
In a 6-3 ruling by the Supreme Court decied that public schools did not have to provide sign language interpreters to death students who otherwise are receiving and equal education.
