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Timeline for Disability Education Rights

By joytruss

  • Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (P.A.R.C.) v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

    Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (P.A.R.C.) v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
    Pennsylvania laws allowed schools to exclude children they considered too mentally disabled to be educated. P.A.R.C. argued that these laws unconstitutionally denied some special needs children access to public education. The court held that all disabled children benefit from education and approved a consent agreement between the parties that laid the groundwork for IDEA, FAPE, IEPs, and state and federal statutes that provide and protect the rights of disabled children (Forte Law, n.d.).

  • Mills v. Board of Education of the District of Columbia