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The Supreme Court of the United States decided it was unfair to divide students by their race in schools.
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My cousin was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck. Due to the lack of oxygen, she was born with challenges she would have to deal with for the rest of her life.
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U.S. District Court for D.C. ruled it unlawful for the D.C. Board of Education to deny students classified as “exceptional” access to publicly funded educational opportunities.
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Congress discovered that there were 8 million children with special education needs and only a third of them were met.
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This law required all states that accepted money from the federal government were required to provide equal access to education for children with disabilities, in addition to providing them with one free meal per day.
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mandated that individual states provide services to families of children born with disabilities from the time they are born.
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a law that gave parents of children with disabilities more say in the development of their child’s Individual Education Plan, or IEP.
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Traumatic brain injury and autism were added as new disability categories. Additionally, Congress mandated that as a part of a student’s IEP, an individual transition plan, or ITP, must be developed to help the student transition to post-secondary life.
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several key amendments that emphasized providing all students with access to the same curriculum, additionally, states were given the authority to expand the “developmental delay” definition from birth through five years of age to also include students between the ages of six and nine.
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