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Public Law 94-142
This law guaranteed a free appropriate public education to each child that had a disability. This law improved the efforts of how to identify and properly educate children with disabilities and it also provided due process protections for the children as well as their family members.
This made it to where the parents had a stronger voice towards the school system making decisions about their child that could be viewed as useful or not useful at all. To help with the funding to educate them. -
Tatro Case
The US Supreme Court ruled that a local school distric must pay for the one on one nursing care for a medically fragile student who required continuous monitoring of his ventilator and other health services and maintenance routines. It was ruled that the schools had to provide any and all health services needed by students with disabilities. This was to be the case as long as the care did not require a licensed physician. -
IDEA
IN 2005 In the burden of proof for what constitutes an appropriate education, the Supreme Court ruled that that the schools do not but the parents are to prove that their children are not recieving FAPE in legal disputes. This is because most complaints/challenges come from the parents during an IEP.