History of Special Education

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
10/17/1965	Office of Special Education Programs is created	This is a segment of the U.S. Department of Education. Although not required, this program helped create resources for children with disabilities.
01/01/1971	PARC v. Pennsylvania	The Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (PARC) brought a case against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In the end, they won the rights for children to receive a free public education through the age of 21.
01/01/1972	Mills v. Board of Education of D.C.	This too, helped students with disabilites receive a free public education. It helped pave the way for children with disabilities.
01/28/1973	Section 504 of the Rehabilitation of 1973 enacted	This law helped people with disabilities receive protection against discrimination.
01/28/1974	FERPA created	The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, allows people with disabilities the abilty to look at their records and possibly have them amended.
08/06/1986	The Handicapped Children's Protection Act	This states that families of those with disabilities have rights with EAHCA (Education for All Handicapped Children Act).
06/18/1990	IDEA	Provides early intervention, special education, and other services to children with disabilities.
01/08/2002	NCLB	No Child Left Behind is an act dealing with public schools. Introduced by President G.W. Bush, its an education reform that sets high standards.
01/01/2004	IDEA changes	Changes to IDEA were made, mostly dealing with more accountability at the state and local levels. More interventions, sooner, are believed to be better for students with disabilities.