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Brown v Board of Education
Court hearing that marked the beginning of "integrated public education for all citizens", specifically African Americans (The Right to Education). -
PARC v Penn Board of Education
PARC sued Pennsylvania because of a law that denied education to certain children who had not reached "a mental age of 5 years" (The Right to Education). -
Mills v Board of Education
Decided that every child should have access to a public education regardless of their "mental, behavioral, physical, or emotional handicaps or deficiencies" (The Right to Education). -
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
This section of the Rehabilitation Act is designed to "protect the rights of individuals with disabilities in programs and activities that receive Federal financial assistance from the U.S. Department of Education" (Protecting Students with Disabilities). -
Education of All Handicapped Children Act
When this law passed, it "guaranteed a free appropriate public education to each child with a disability" (Thirty-five Years of Progress in Educating Children with Disabilities Through Idea). -
Americans with Disabilities Act
The Americans with Disabilities Act "prohibits discrimination against with disabilities in all areas of public life, including jobs, schools, transportation, and all public and private places that are open to the general public" (What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?). -
Iowa City schools complaints
The Iowa City schools had 455 seclusion reports and complaints filed against them saying that "black students were disproportionally put into Iowa City seclusion rooms", and they then had 90 days to "review its policies, practices and procedures relating to restraint and seclusion" (The Right to Education). -
Two-decade legal battle in California
A legal battle over eight special education students alleging "erratic or nonexistent special education services" led to a plan that "required California to reform its dysfunctional state level monitoring system" (The Right to Education). -
Parents sue State of Georgia
Parents felt that the Georgia Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support (GNETS) was being used "dumping ground for students that local school districts [did not] want to serve." They sued for unnecessary segregation. (The Right to Education) -
Every Student Succeeds Act
Signed by President Obama and "builds on key areas of progress in recent years, made possible by the efforts of educators, communities, parents, and students across the country" (Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)).
