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Mandate of Public Education
Massachusetts passes a law that makes towns that have a population over 500 people have their children enrolled and attend public schools. -
First School for Children with Learning/Intellectual Disabilities
Samuel Gridley Howe helped create the first school for students with different disabilities called "the Experimental School for Teaching and Training Idiotic Children". This paved the way for more inclusiveness for children with disabilities. -
Creation of the Department of Education
The Department of Education is created which gives rules and standards for public schools to follow while administrating federal funds. -
Transportation in Schools
All states are required by law to provide transportation to students in public schools. This was a major change to the school system as students no longer had to worry about how they were to get to school. -
National School Lunch Act
Schools became required to serve lunches with a minimum nutritional value prescribed by the secretary, serve meals with no cost/reduced cost to low-income students, etc. This gave students that are in poor families at least one meal a day during the school year. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Rules that "separate means unequal" and overturns Plessy vs. Ferguson. This was the first step to making a more equitable education system. Making sure every student is able to learn in the same environment. -
National Defense Education Act
As a result of Sputnik, a Russian satellite that made it to space before the American's, the public schools decided to pay more attention to math, science, and foreign language. -
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
Provides federal funds to low-income students. This paves the way for different educational programs, like Title I. -
Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children vs. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Mills vs. Board of Education, District of Colombia
The state must allow students with intellectual disabilities age 6-21 to have a free, public education. Preschool was also available (for free) for children with intellectual disabilities if there is a preschool in the district. The Mills vs. Board of Education altered this to fit ALL disabilities. This changed schools in the United States to be more inclusive. -
Oberti vs. Board of Education of the Borough of Clementon School District
Students must be considered to be in a general education classroom with aids and special services before being put in a separate learning environment. This put in place the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)