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Brown v. Board of Education
This case was created when colored students were denied admission into schools of white students. Brown filed this case stating that it violated the colored students right to the fourteenth amendment. The Supreme court agreed that this action was unconstitutional and this lead to many believed this included people with disabilities. -
Elementary and Secondary Education Amendments of 1967
This set of amendments established programs that would offer support to expand and improve special education services. -
PARC v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
This court case was created by the plaintiffs in 1971 against the state and its authorities and stated that students with disabilities were not receiving the type of education they deserved due to their disabilities. This was amended a year later and resolved by the agreement that students with disabilities from the ages 6-21 will be provided with free education. -
Mills v. Board of Education
This movement was started by the parents/guardians of seven children who represented a number of different disabilities. These children were denied public education in Washington D.C. The suit was based off of the 14th amendment and ended in the court ordering the district to provide due process safeguard. -
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
This is a Civil Rights law that protects people with disabilities from discrimination. This applies to elementary and secondary schools and provides children with disabilities the right to special education and other related services under section 504 -
Education for all Handicapped Children
This law provided free education to children with disabilities and allowed them to have an equal opportunity to learn and grow as other students did. This law was signed by President Gerald Ford on November 29, 1975. It is currently known as the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act". -
Individual with Disability Education Act
In 1990, the EHA act was reauthorized by Congress and renamed to the Individual with Disability Education Act (IDEA). The act has the same purpose as the EHA act which was to provide students with disabilities the same education offered to students who did not have disabilities. -
Individual with Disabilities Education Act 1997
The IDEA was once again reauthorized by Congress in 1997. This time there was a significant change added to it that school districts have obligations to parentally placed private school students with disabilities. This came with a consultation that the school district would meet with the representatives of the parentally placed private school that was timely and meaningful about the student with disabilities. -
(IDEA) Individual with Disabilities Education Act 2004
The Individual with Disabilities Education Act was reauthorized again in 2004. This is the most current version of IDEA. It provides requirements to make sure students with disabilities are receiving education and provides federal funding for special education services. -
Every Student Succeeds Act
This act was signed by President Obama in 2015. This act reauthorizes the 50-year-old Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The previous version of this law was the No Child Left Behind act signed in 2002. This law is to ensure and equal opportunity for all students and builds on key areas of progress in recent years.
