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Brown V. Board
This case led the way to a growing understanding that all people, regardless of race, gender, or disability, have a right to public education. -
John F. Kennedy's Bills Become Laws
The Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Act, which granted $265 million in federal aid over five years to support programs for the mentally handicapped. -
Civil Rights Act
Relief against discrimination. -
Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965 (ESEA)
This acts funds primary and secondary education. It emphasizes equal access to education and establishes high standards and accountability. -
Mills V. Board
This case against the District of Columbia declared that students with disabilities must be given a public education, and that financial limits were not an important point in providing education to these students. -
The Family of Educational Rights and Privacy Act
Parents are allowed to have access to all personally identifiable information collected, maintained, or used by a school district regarding their child. -
Education For All Handicapped Children's Act
This amendment created two separate, but related laws. One was the Education of the Handicapped Act Amendments of 1974, which was the first to mention an appropriate education for all children with disabilities. The second law, the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, gave parents and students over the age of 18 the right to examine records kept in the student's personal file. -
Rowley V. Board
The court ruled that the students who qualify for special education services must have access to public school programs that meet their needs, and that the programs must be supported by services that enable students to benefit from instruction. -
Handicapped Children's Protection Act of 1986
This act overturned a Supreme Court decision and authorizes courts to award reasonable attorneys fees to parents who prevail in due process proceedings and court actions under part B of the Education of the Handicapped Act. -
Larry P. V. Wilson Riles
IQ tests cannot be used to determine whether or not African American students should be classified as mentally retarded due to the racial and cultural bias of the assessment. Furthermore, no IQ test can be used on these students to test for any disability. -
Americans With Disabilities Act
The ADA is a wide-ranging civil rights law that prohibits, under certain circumstances, discrimination based on disability. -
Doe V. Withers
Teacher, even general education teacher, must make a good faith effort to accomodate a student Individual Learning Plan if at all possible and provide required accommodations for students with disabilities when necessary. -
Individuals With Disabilities Act of 1997
The reauthorization of IDEA was viewed as an opportunity to review, strengthen, and improve IDEA to better educate children with disabilities and enable them to achieve a quality education. -
ESEA Is Now Known As "No Child Left Behind"
The Act requires states to develop assessments in basic skills to be given to all students in certain grades, if those states are to receive federal funding for schools. -
IDEIA Reinactment Improvement
This reinactment of the IDEA defined the purpose of special education. It clarifies Congress’ intended outcome for each child with a disability: students must be provided a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) that prepares them for further education, employment, and independent living. Special education and related services should be designed to meet the unique learning needs of eligible children with disabilities, preschool through age 21. -
Murphy V. Board
This case reaffirmed that the school board must pay for private schooling for students with disabilities to be in accordance with IDEA. -
NCLB Is Now Called Race Toward The Top
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Individuals With Disabilities Act
Americans with Disabilities Act gets ammended and turns into Individuals with Disabilities.
