TIMELINE OF LANDMARK LEGISLATION

By brooklyn6112

  • Plessy v Ferguson

    The historic 1896 United States Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson established the validity of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" theory. The lawsuit came from an incident in which Homer Plessy, an African American train passenger, refused to seat in a car reserved for Black people in 1892.

  • Brown vs the board of education

    The United States Supreme Court unanimously declared in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation in public schools violated the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment. Separate educational facilities for white and African American pupils were found fundamentally unequal in the 1954 judgment.

  • Civil rights act

    The Civil Rights Act encouraged the development of educational policies that stressed equity in education, such as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and later, the Every Student Succeeds Act, which was reauthorized in 2015.

  • Title IX

    Title IX of the School Amendments of 1972 outlaws sex discrimination in any education program or activity that receives federal funding. This includes pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity.

  • Education of all handicapped children act

    EAHCA is a federal statute passed in 1975. Public Law 94–142 is another name for it. It mandates that all children with impairments between the ages of 3 and 21 get appropriate educational assistance in public schools. Over time, EAHCA has been strengthened and expanded.

  • Plyler v doe

    The court decided that withholding state funds for local school systems that educated children who were in the nation without legal authority violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in a 5-4 decision announced on June 15, 1982.

  • no child left behind act

    Several federal education programs are authorized by the No Child Left Behind Act, which are handled by the states. The main goal of No Child Left Behind is to narrow achievement inequalities among students by ensuring that all children have a fair, equal, and meaningful opportunity to receive a high-quality education.