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Education Timeline

  • Plessy v Ferguson

    Plessy v Ferguson
    Plessy was forced to get off the train because he was part African American. This was an issue of race and people of color was affected because no wrong doing was found.
  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
    This was the over turn of Plessy v. Ferguson, allowing African American the right to all public facilities
  • Title VI of the Civil Rights Acts

    This Act was signed by President Lyndon Johnson to stop discrimination based on race, color, sex and religion. This law was put into place to protect all.
  • Serrano v. Priest

    Serrano v. Priest
    School in low-income areas were not geeting adequate funds, and in result students in these school districts were being discriminated against because of this.
  • Title IX of the Education Amendents

    Title IX of the Education Amendents
    Prevents discrimination towards any students or employees at any school that is federal funded.
  • Lau v. Nichols

    Lau v. Nichols
    Chinese speaking students with limited english did no get proper linguisticss services and were wrongly placed in special education classed. U.S. Supreme Court ruled that school district need to ensure accommodation are made to all non-english students.
  • Education of All Handicapped Children Act

    Education of All Handicapped Children Act
    U.S> Congress passed this Act to ensure that children no regardless of their handicap be educated in a less restrictive enviroment.
  • Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

    Bakke a caucasian male in his 30s was denied admission into medical school, his aruge was based on his race.
  • Plyer v. Doe

    UNder the Fourteenth Amendment all immigrants will recive education through a school district
  • Lee v. Weisman

    Restriction of prayers at high school graduations.